Author Archives: Drachen Foundation

Empty Spaces: Jørgen Møller Hansen

Perhaps it is a bit “odd” to have so many individuals write about one kitemaker. [...]

Drachen – Perusing a Kite Archive

Perhaps the following images and details from articles will spur some of you to action.  [...]

Drachen Archives: Japanese Prints

Scott Skinner has one of the most unique collections of Japanese prints in the world [...]

Drachen: Deb Cooley

Deb Cooley I jumped into kiting with both feet in 1984 when I attended my [...]

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 [...]

Issue 79: Drachen Archives: Mokuhanga Conference

International Mokuhanga Conference, 2011 I recently had the opportunity to address the participants of the [...]

Issue 78: Drachen Archives: Artists in Cervia

A gallery of artists in Cervia Having made kites for almost thirty years, I’ve come [...]

Issue 77: Drachen Archives: Back to Beaufort

I’ve been lucky in the last several years to participate in a number of collaborations [...]

Issue 76: Drachen Archives: Digitizing

When we make art, or kites, it’s often a convergence of factors that guides our [...]

Issue 75: Drachen Archives: Painting with Papel China

Many of you don’t know that I have another artistic passion – distinct and different [...]

Issue 74: Drachen Archives: DOTA @ Burning Man

My 2010 Burning Man experience started with a full-fledged white-out of blowing dust and sand. [...]

Issue 73: Drachen Archives: Master of Paper and Flight

For the last twenty years, there has been a shining star in the kite flyers’ [...]

Issue 72: Drachen Archives: A Collection of National Treasures

It is a bit humorous to talk about “humans” being artifacts and treasures, but such [...]

Issue 71: Drachen Archives – Relegated to the Back Room…

As I was starting to organize all of the assorted objects that are not kites, [...]

Issue 70: Drachen Archives – German Submarine Rotary Wing Kite

Having attended the High Altitude Wind Power symposium at California State University in Chico, I [...]

Issue 68: Empty Spaces – Bill Lockhart

A Tribute to a Dear Friend and Kitemaker. . . Most of you probably didn’t [...]

Issue 67: Drachen Archives – Three Ferries, Plus One

Sitting on the ferry that travels from the Danish island of Fano, back to mainland [...]

Issue 66: Drachen Archives – Gold for the Serious Kite Researcher

On a recent trip to the National Art Education Association convention, held this year in [...]

Issue 65: Drachen Archives: Traditions of Woodblock

In Japan in the early 18th Century began a great kite-hysteria that lasted through most [...]

Issue 64: Drachen Archives: The Way We Were

Another year has slipped away and memories of Y2K have become distant as the first [...]