It's spring. Wind's up. Time to break out the kites. Last weekend, I brought home a simple, solidly built $10 kite for the next clear, windy weekend day. Knowing that our preschooler won't be terribly ...

Nobody flew fancy kites a few decades ago. But it didn’t matter. When my dad fitted the balsa ribs onto the yellow paper store-bought kite, spring arrived just as surely then as it does now. I still ...

After teaching kite pattern design, Guo Hongli, the renowned kite-maker from Weifang, shows how to build a kite framework by making a small cross of two pieces of light wood. [Photo by Zhao ...

If you plan it right, kite flying can be a breeze. That’s never quite been the case with us, but maybe that’s because we’d routinely buy the cheapest drugstore kite we could find, get painful string ...

Have you ever tried to build your own kite? Kites have been a source of entertainment for centuries for kids around the world. How do some features of a kite, such as its tail, affect how it flies? In ...

The 75-year-old Zhang Xiaodong, an inheritor of the kite-making technique, is also ready to appear with his kites at the festival for the 42nd time. On Zhang's workshop table lies a notebook, in which ...