Tag Archives: drachen
Drachen: An Unearthed Treasure
A few months ago, I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico to participate in the [...]
Feb
Empty Spaces: Jørgen Møller Hansen
Perhaps it is a bit “odd” to have so many individuals write about one kitemaker. [...]
Jul
Drachen Archives: Japanese Prints
Scott Skinner has one of the most unique collections of Japanese prints in the world [...]
Mar
Drachen: Deb Cooley
Deb Cooley I jumped into kiting with both feet in 1984 when I attended my [...]
Feb
Issue 81: Drachen Archives – Power of Our Online Archive
After 17 years of collecting, studying, documenting, digitizing and finally redesigning a massive website that [...]
Issue 80: Drachen Archives
Tour the new foundation website! I’d like to take Kitelife.com readers on a guided tour [...]
Sep
Issue 79: Drachen Archives: Mokuhanga Conference
International Mokuhanga Conference, 2011 I recently had the opportunity to address the participants of the [...]
Jul
Issue 78: Drachen Archives: Artists in Cervia
A gallery of artists in Cervia Having made kites for almost thirty years, I’ve come [...]
Jun
Issue 76: Drachen Archives: Digitizing
When we make art, or kites, it’s often a convergence of factors that guides our [...]
Feb
Issue 75: Drachen Archives: Painting with Papel China
Many of you don’t know that I have another artistic passion – distinct and different [...]
Dec
Issue 74: Drachen Archives: DOTA @ Burning Man
My 2010 Burning Man experience started with a full-fledged white-out of blowing dust and sand. [...]
Oct
Issue 73: Drachen Archives: Master of Paper and Flight
For the last twenty years, there has been a shining star in the kite flyers’ [...]
Aug
Issue 71: Drachen Archives – Relegated to the Back Room…
As I was starting to organize all of the assorted objects that are not kites, [...]
Apr
Issue 70: Drachen Archives – German Submarine Rotary Wing Kite
Having attended the High Altitude Wind Power symposium at California State University in Chico, I [...]
Feb
Issue 64: Drachen Archives: The Way We Were
Another year has slipped away and memories of Y2K have become distant as the first [...]
Feb
Issue 59: Owls and Dragons
On Tuesday 25th March 2008, eighty freshman students at Temple University’s Engineering College took over [...]
Apr
Issue 56: Drachen Archives: “The Black Files”
In addition to the hundreds of kites, tools, photos, and books in its collection, the [...]
Sep
Issue 55: Drachen Archives: Paper Japanese Kite
The Drachen Foundation often receives generous archival donations from unexpected places. Seldom is any donation [...]
Aug
Issue 54: Drachen Archives: Marconi-Crippen
It’s easy to be enthused about a new Erik Larson book; the stories he weaves [...]
Jun
Issue 53: Drachen Archives: Au fil des Vents
The Drachen Foundation recently placed a database of its library archive online for the public [...]
Apr
Issue 52: Drachen Archives: Guatemalan Kites
While visiting the village of Sumpango, Guatemala, in 2003, to investigate their Dia de los [...]
Feb
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