Category Archives: Kite Columns

Issue 55: Drachen Archives: Paper Japanese Kite

The Drachen Foundation often receives generous archival donations from unexpected places. Seldom is any donation [...]

Issue 55: Featured Store: Let’s Fly A Kite

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 55: REVisions: All Lined Up

As a person gets their very first quad kite, one of the very first lessons [...]

Issue 54: From the Editor

Howdy folks, thanks for coming back to browse our 54th issue of Kitelife! We got [...]

Issue 54: AKA Corner

Do you know a great location for a kite festival and can’t figure out why [...]

Issue 54: Dave’s World: Berck

The sun beamed out of a beautiful blue sky Saturday morning, and as the wind [...]

Issue 54: Drachen Archives: Marconi-Crippen

It’s easy to be enthused about a new Erik Larson book; the stories he weaves [...]

Issue 54: Featured Store: Goodwinds Kites

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 54: REVisions: Team for Anyone

I’m currently sitting in New York state, trying to decide what to write about while [...]

Issue 53: From the Editor

Welcome to yet another issue of Kitelife, published just as we’re getting into the full [...]

Issue 53: AKA Corner

Greetings to all in kite land from here in Minnesota where the lakes are still [...]

Issue 53: Dave’s World

Saturday afternoon, a frigid wind was blowing across the ice in Clear Lake Iowa. Kiters [...]

Issue 53: Drachen Archives: Au fil des Vents

The Drachen Foundation recently placed a database of its library archive online for the public [...]

Issue 53: Featured Store: A Wind Of Change

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 53: REVisions: Indoors, Pairs and More!

Last time I sat down to write REVisions, where I dealt with the basics of [...]

Issue 52: From the Editor

Wow, it’s only February and already so much has happened in the kite community… I’m [...]

Issue 52: AKA Corner

Hi, everyone! It’s Region 8 Director, Gayle Woodul, stepping in as Guest Commentator for the [...]

Issue 52: Dave’s World

There aren’t a lot of exciting kite trips in December and early January. So when [...]

Issue 52: Drachen Archives: Guatemalan Kites

While visiting the village of Sumpango, Guatemala, in 2003, to investigate their Dia de los [...]

Issue 52: Featured Store: The Kite Shoppe

Each month we’ll be featuring one of the fine retailers who have been so supportive [...]

Issue 52: REVisions: Indoor Experience

Kites If you dig back into Kitelife’s online archive of Stunt Kite Quarterly magazines and [...]