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When the wax and the weather are just the right temperature, after each dip we wait for the candle to cool before dipping again. About fifty dips are required to make a candle. Candle making was work that both boys and girls could do to help at home. In the old days, if a brass pot was used, or if copper pennies were dropped into the pot, the candles would be green. Boiled berries of the wax myrtle, or candleberry tree, added both wax and fragrance. Look for the lady who makes candles at Westville and she'll probably let you help her.
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To
make wicks, we simply tie strings, about four or five at a time, to sticks.
Then we melt the beeswax a big iron pot over a fire and dip the strings
into it over and over to build them up one thin layer at a time. The wax
must be just the right temperature. If too hot, the candles will melt,
and if too cool, the layers will scale off from one another. 