How to Make Your Own Wicks for Candles
Candle making is catching on. Here's how to make a wick.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Cotton Kite Strings Or Twine
- Clothespins And Line
- Table Salt
- Scissors
- Old Newspapers
- Paper And Binder Clips
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Dissolve 2 tbsp. table salt and 4 tbsp. borax in 1 1/2 c. warm water.
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Soak a 1-foot length of regular cotton kite string or twine in the solution for 15 minutes.
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Hang the string with a clothespin for five days to be sure it is completely dry.
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Use a paper clip to dip the string in melted wax three or four times, coating it completely. Hang it up to dry as before.
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5
Store wicks rolled up in a newspaper.
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Tips & Warnings
Add 1 tsp. of one of the following chemicals for colored flames: strontium chloride for a brilliant red flame, boric acid for a deep red flame, calcium for a red-orange flame, calcium chloride for a yellow-orange flame, table salt for a bright yellow flame, borax for a yellow-green flame, copper sulfate (blue vitriol/bluestone) for a green flame, calcium chloride for a blue flame, potassium sulfate or potassium nitrate (saltpeter) for a violet flame or Epsom salt for a white flame.
Add only one chemical for color variation.
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Comments
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grocery store in the laundry soap isle-= 20 mule team borax.
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Borax is easily found - it's in the laundry aisle next to things like bleach. I use forty-mule team borax. I use these wicks for oil candles, and they are great. Granted, I'm not interested in making them colored or anything like that. For longer burning, I braid my string, and dip it as one. It doesn't burn that much slower, but it does give off a little more light.
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my soy candles r burning to quickly is this because of the type of wick?
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Hobby Craft in Tamworth x
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I cant find anywhere that's sells Borax can anyone help?
