Abstract: A stitchless burning wick comprising a tubular wick body comprising a burner part and an oil suction part having opposite abutting edges. A plurality of channel-like connecting members are spaced apart and straddle the opposite abutting edges of the burner part and the oil suction part. These members have legs which extend inwardly of the wick body from outside the wick body and then toward each other and then toward the outside so as to embrace yarns of the wick body. A holding tape is disposed over the connecting members and has a size covering only the vicinity of the opposite abutting edges and overlying portions of the burner part and the oil suction part along the opposite abutting edges. The connecting members have been given an anticorrosion treatment. A circumferential tape overlies only adjacent portions of the burner part and oil suction part, the members penetrating this circumferential tape.