Overview of Gingerbread and Wax craft through the Centuries
Overview of Gingerbread and Wax craft through the Centuries

Summary/Abstract: When writing about the history of mead- and candle-making crafts in Europe, the author analyzes the origin of the word licitar, and quotes the information about the beginnings of this craft. Later in the text, the author discusses the beginning and the development of this craft in Croatia, the forming of brotherhoods, guilds and craft associations. As a typical example of the development of gingerbread and candlemakers, she analyzes the work of the LukiniÊ family from the city of Karlovac. It covers the beginnings of the craft in Karlovac, the arrival of foreign masters of the craft, their influence on the local population, the development of local crafts and the founding of the first factory for the making of mead and candle products in Croatia. A detailed description of wooden moulds is given, moulds that reflect the age and different style periods, and which were the basic craftsmen's tools from the very beginnings.

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