How about starting with a little bit on the history of the oil lamp. We have to go a long way back.
How far back? Romans? Egyptians? Chinese – they invented everything didn’t they? No, further back.
70,000 years ago, the first rudimentary oil candles were made and used by Stone Age man. Incidentally, this coincides with a dramatic reduction in the population of humans on earth. So much so, that we almost became extinct with numbers as low as 2000.

Of course, this was NOTHING to do with oil candles. Even more ironically, it seems to have been due to extreme changes in climate! Oh well… it’s been nice knowing you, I’ve had a good knock so far….
The earliest of oil lamps were made of things like shells and hollowed out bones and they would burn animal fat via moss which acted like a wick. I am a bit of a traditionalist, but I’m going to have to tell you that if you use moss in a Clearcraft Oil Candle it will be RUBBISH!
From what I remember in visits to various medieval castles, moss used to be used as an early form of toilet paper as well. It’s very versatile stuff, and quite frankly I’m amazed it’s fallen out of fashion! Try not to get your wicks and your wipes mixed up though!
Even in the Stone Age, Mr and Mrs Rockhead could see that oil was better than wax. They didn’t want to be cleaning the stuff off their beautiful stone dining slab, nor did they want to clog up their moss! Makes you wonder why we ever went backwards!
I wonder what they would have called them. Not really an oil lamp. Perhaps an oil burner? A fat light thing? Or a Gngughgung! Yeah, that’s it.
Moving on like quite a few thousand years, then the Romans and the Eqyptians did get their name up in lights because they produced the first man made oil lamps. Oh, and let’s not forget the Greeks.