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Bees-wax was known in ancient times. The Bible tells us of a land flowing with milk and honey; and where there was honey, there must also have been wax. Pliny speaks of white wax, and in the time of Dioscorides wax was rolled into sheets according to a method described by him.
At that time materials for lighting made from wax fetched a high price; they were used at divine service, and the consumption which was at first comparatively small, was afterwards increased by the spread of Christianity. The bleaching of wax was at that time carried on as an independent trade, and one sees how extensive it was by the fact that towards the end of the seventeenth century there were in Hamburg alone fourteen bleaching-houses for wax. It is certain that, with the exception of oil and tallow, as also of the common torch, no other material for lighting was known except wax, and this could only ho used by very rich people.
Even princes who allowed themselves this luxury (as it was then held) were accounted extravagant. But, in addition to tapers, wax was used in still larger quantities for the manufacture of artificial flowers and fruits, which were much used as ornaments for rooms, for artificial flowers made of woven fabrics were not then known.
The Reformation dealt a heavy blow to the wax trade, and consequently bee-keeping also suffered, from the fact that the Evangelical Church did away with tapers at divine service.
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