City girl breaks world record

City girl breaks world record
City girl breaks world record

Bengaluru girl Rebecca Taylor has sealed her place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Rebecca has made the largest tealight candle, which is 5’5″ in diameter.

The previous record-holding candle measured 3’3″ in diameter.

“I had applied for the record on June 1, 2014, but got the confirmation only on June 27 this year,” said the 27-year-old cartoonist.

Rebecca took five hours to make the candle through a unique process called hand moulding, in which semi-hot wax is sculpted into different shapes.Each petal of the pink rose-shaped candle is unique in shape and size, and measures one-and-half to two feet.

“This is an amalgamation of my love for nature and passion for the arts. However, it turned out to be a Herculean task to work on a candle of this magnitude.

It took me a lot of time to understand the behaviour of the wax and work in various temperatures,” she added.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Life & Style> People / by Stuti Agarwal, TNN / July 02nd, 2015

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