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They melted tallow and/or wax in a kettle over an open fire. The hung the wicks from a stick and poured the melted tallow over the wicks. With each pouring, one layer of the tallow solidified on the wick. Then another pouring created another layer and so on until the candle was large enough.

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colonial candles are made of strings (wicks) dipped in wax

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they made it out of buffalo chips

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