Use a heat gun after soaking fabric in melted beeswax to help the fibers absorb more wax and to melt away any excess. Petra Ahnert presents dozens of ways to use beeswax inBeeswax Alchemy(Quarry Books ...

Before there were synthetic fabrics, before Gore-Tex and “weatherproof breathability,” there was thick cotton and a can of wax. Early sailors realized that wet sails caught the wind better than dry ...

Before technical fabrics, there was waxed cotton. This natural fabric gains its water resistance from a thick coating of either paraffin or beeswax-based wax, creating a barrier that beads away water ...