How can I remove candle drops from a hand-woven carpet or rug ?

Place a clean cloth over the spots and iron it. It will melt and adhere to the cloth.

Wax is one of the hardest substances to remove from any fabric; you can’t wash it out, and because it soaks into the fibers and then hardens, you can’t scrape all of it off. But with some work, you can get remove most of the wax when you spill it on a carpet.

Loop carpet

Wax is easier to get out of loop carpet than pile. Here’s how to do it:

1. Put ice or a bag of frozen vegetables inside a tightly-sealing Ziploc baggie. Place the ice over the wax to freeze it. You want the wax as cold as possible before you start working with it.

2. While your wax is chilling, get a butter knife and a firm-bristle brush (something with about the consistency of an extra-firm toothbrush). A Dustbuster or other small hand-held vacuum cleaner will be handy, but not necessary. You also want to get some paper towels, a dry washcloth, and an iron without steam (or with the steam reservoir emptied). Plug the iron in near the wax you’re removing, and turn it on the lowest setting.

3. Remove the ice; you should have very cold and dry wax. Scrape off what you can with the butter knife, and suck it up in the Dustbuster as you scrape. If you don’t have a Dustbuster, sweep the residue away with your hand so that you have a clear working area.

4. When you’ve removed as much surface wax as you can, scrub the area lightly with the firm-bristle brush until no more wax particles come away; scrub a little harder but not hard enough to damage the fibers. You’ve done all you can when your brush is starting to catch on fibers, and nothing appears to be coming off the carpet.

Now for the trick:

5. Lay paper towels over the wax stain. Over the paper towels, put a dry washcloth. Put your iron on top of the dry washcloth and press firmly, wiggling the iron, for about ten seconds. Lift the paper towels. If there is a grease stain on the paper towel, your iron is hot enough; if not, make it a little warmer. Repeat until a grease stain shows up on your paper towel.

6. Discard stained paper towel and replace with a new one, cover with the washcloth, and repeat ironing. Check the paper towel; if it has a grease stain, repeat all of this step until the paper towel comes back twice without grease.

7. If your carpet looks okay now, great! You’re done. But if there is noticeable discoloration, you will need to clean it with a carpet cleaner. While the wax stain is still very warm from the iron, put undiluted carpet cleaner or a gentle colorfast laundry stain remover directly on the stain, and scrub gently with a damp washcloth. Let sit for about ten minutes; then go over the stain with a carpet cleaner filled with plain water until the stain is gone and you don’t see any soapy residue.

, The first thing you need to do is remove as much of the hardened wax as you can. A butter knife works well for this but you can use anything with a dull blade. Scrape up what you can and vacuum the debris. Next place a clean cloth, paper bag or paper towel over the wax. Run a warm iron over the cloth until the wax melts. A hot hair dryer can also be used. Once the wax is melted, it should adhere to the cloth. Lift the cloth and the wax should lift with it.

if the wax is colored, it may stain your carpet. Anytime you apply heat to a stain, it causes the stain to lock into the fibers leaving you with a permanent reminder of your clumsiness. It's for this reason you should use a warm iron only. You also don't want to use newspaper or any kind of paper with words or pictures on it unless you want the image to be transferred to your carpet.

I had the same problem a little while ago, and someone advised me to put some paper down, or a towel, then use an iron and iron over the drops and it should melt and be absorbed by the paper/towel. Worked for me.

If i was you, i was going to get the hair dryer and put it above the drops until they turned into liquid, and then getting a piece of paper or cloth to wipe it away.

Boiling water always works to get wax off things.