Candles
Rapeseed and soy wax, cotton wicks and scents of the lake shore.
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Made slowly, by the lake
Hollowmere pours candles and blends loose-leaf tea in an old boathouse on the shore of Hollow Mere, a few dozen at a time, by hand.
Small batches, long evenings
Every candle is poured in the boathouse, in batches of forty, and left to cure on the shelf for two weeks before it is wrapped. It burns more evenly for the wait.
The tea is blended on the same long table: leaves from three small gardens we buy from directly, with flowers and herbs we grow or gather round the mere.
Nothing is made in a hurry, and nothing is made that we would not use at home.
What we make
Loose-leaf tea
Nine blends in tins, from a bright green to a smoky black.
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Evening workshops
Pour your own candle and blend your own tea, with supper.
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12Scents in the shop
9Teas in tins
55 hA large jar burns
6Guests a workshop
Kind words
EMElin MorganKendal
The Boathouse candle smells exactly like the walk down to the water in October. I have bought six and given away five.
SASam and PriyaWorkshop guests
An evening I did not know I needed. We poured two candles each, drank far too much tea and nobody looked at a phone.
THTom HendryTea by post, Edinburgh
The smoky black tea has replaced my morning coffee, which I had sworn would never happen.
Spend an evening with us
Two hours in the boathouse, six guests, one candle poured by you and a tin of your own blend to take home.