Woolston · Christchurch
The Tannery Makers Market
Boutique
Christchurch's makers-market complex; permanent shopfront for Tannery Wax Co and rotating South Island makers.
The shop.
The Tannery sits in a converted Woolston factory complex and houses the Tannery Wax Co's home shopfront — pure beeswax tapers, pillars, and beeswax-soy blends, sold by the working bee-keeping family who pour them. South Light Candles and Kauri & Cold Fire both rotate through visiting-maker tables here.
What makes it worth visiting
Beeswax tapers direct from the apiarist who poured them
Visit tip
Saturday mornings have visiting makers; weekday quietness has the regulars
Makers carried.
3 makers on the shelf.
Woolston · Christchurch
Tannery Wax Co
Pure beeswax, lightly-scented beeswax-soy blends
Beeswax · from $28 →
Sydenham · Christchurch
South Light Candles
Wax-blend experimentation, kawakawa-eucalyptus, cold-climate florals
Soy-coconut blend · from $56 →
North Dunedin · Dunedin
Kauri & Cold Fire
Peat-smoke, kauri resin, vetiver — cold-climate longburn
Rapeseed wax · from $58 →