Candle

Candle – One candle provide 6 hours of burning time for use with traditional candle-heated kistka

Tip
You don’t need special candles (such as expensive beeswax candles) for pysanky. Regular paraffin ones will do but many types burn too quickly. Tea lights are undesirable as they have a very small flame that is not not enough to melt your beeswax and have a shorter burning time. Holding your egg near the flame to melt off the beeswax using a tea light will be very difficult. Download (pdf) our free Fire Safety Guidelines.