Category Archives: Kite Lines

Kite Lines – Vol. 8 No. 1 (Summer 1990)

Description Cover Story: New Zealand 1990, the southern hemisphere’s biggest kite event, text and photos [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 7 No. 4 (Winter 1989-90)

Description Cover Story: Kites in the new China seen by Tal Streeter in Weifang (photos [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 7 No. 3 (Summer 1989)

Description Cover Story: Dueling on the rooftops, the annual kite frenzy in Ahmedabad, India, as [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 7 No. 2 (Winter 1988-89)

Description Cover Story: The 1988 World Kiting Festival in Tasmania, Australia with cover photo of [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 7 No. 1 (Spring 1988)

Description Cover Story: Beautiful kiting in alpine Japan, with Valerie Govig at the ’87 World [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 6 No. 4 (Summer-Fall 1987)

Description Cover Story: The Song Hong kites of Buriram, Thailand, part of the Pattaya International [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 6 No. 3 (Winter-Spring 1987)

Description Cover Story: The fighting kites and proud traditions of Thailand, by Ron Spaulding (with [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 6 No. 2 (Summer 1986)

Description Cover Story: “People Socks,” the fabric human figures of Oscar and Sarah Bailey, by [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 6 No. 1 (Spring 1986)

Description Cover Story: A tale of two California festivals, including Rick Kinnaird at Long Beach [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 5 No. 4 (Summer-Fall 1985)

Description Cover Story: Cervia Belissima! Cervia Volante ’85, by Valerie Govig on with cover photos [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 5 No. 3 (Spring 1985)

Description Cover Story: Shakib Gunn’s photographs, drawings and article on the Great Kites of Bali. [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 5 No. 2 (Summer-Fall 1984)

Description Cover Story: Stairways to Heaven, the kite trains and Expansible Box Kites (with plans) [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 5 No. 1 (Spring 1984)

Description Cover: Wassyoi! Wassyoi! The Shirone Giant Kite Battle, reported by Kazuo Tamura, translated by [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 4 No. 4 (Summer-Fall 1983)

Description Cover Story: The artistic eye of Disney Studios designer and kitemaker Tyrus Wong (text [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 4 No. 3 (Winter-Spring 1983)

Description Cover Photo: Cody kite at sunset by Frank McShane of Scotland. Features: Bill Bigge [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 4 No. 2 (First Quarter 1982)

Description Cover Story: George Peters at play in Hawaii, by Clare Chanler Forster. Features: Dale [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 4 No. 1 (Summer-Fall 1981)

Description Cover Story: Masters of nylon: father-and-son Curtis and Gray Marshall of Baltimore, MD, photos [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 4 (Winter-Spring 1981)

Description Cover: Delightful Dioppo, a photo/report by Jacques Fissier on France’s prestigious kite festival. Features: [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 3 (Fall 1980)

Description Cover Story: Ahhh… Scheveningen, Holland’s Highest Day (cover photo of Nick Morse and Cody [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1980)

Description Cover Photo: Jacques Fissier’s dragon-kite-at-sunset. Features: Valerie Govig profile of “the real Will Yolen;” [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 1 (Winter 1979-80)

Description Cover Story: George Ham, San Francisco maker of parafoils par excellence, text and photos [...]