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Flight PatternsFlight Patterns
$15.00

A Guide to Kitemaking. One of America's most treasured kitemakers brings his pen and designs to a delightful "how to" booklet. This is a collection of Leland Toy's most favorite kite designs and instructional guides. Softcover, 32pp.
Flying Cowboy Samuel Cody: Britain's First Airman, TheFlying Cowboy Samuel Cody: Britain's First Airman, The
$37.50

The Flying Cowboy gives an authoritative look at Cody's aviation exploits in Britain. Black and white with photos.
 
By Peter Reese
 
Softcover, 256 pages
From Kites to WingsFrom Kites to Wings
$5.00

An overview of kites in aviation history. Softcover, 20 pp.
Guatemalan Kites: Remembering the Ancestors bookletGuatemalan Kites: Remembering the Ancestors booklet
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$15.00

A picture booklet about the giant kites of Guatemala (includes map) for intermediate-level readers and English Language Learners. Spiral-bound with high resolution images; sixteen 8-1/2" by 11" pages; in English OR Spanish. A low-resolution version for free download will soon be available at the Drachen Foundation website.
 
$15.00
Hand Papermaking 20th Anniversary IssueHand Papermaking 20th Anniversary Issue
$18.00

The issue, Paper in Flight, includes Waves to Washi to Wings, an article by DF Board president, Scott Skinner, on handmade paper in Japanese kites, and an interview in artist Leslie Dill, printer Gail Deery, and Skinner, who collaborated on a ten-foot art kite to commemorate Hand Papermaking’s anniversary. Other articles include Marie-Hélène Reynaud on the Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, Elaine Koretsky on the Fire Balloons of Myanmar, Brian Queen on Building and Flying Paper Hot-Air Balloons, and Anne McKeown on Byron Kim’s Sky Blue Kite. The issue also includes as a “gift tip-in” a miniature kite (available only in this issue; instructions for building and flying included), designed by artist Lesley Dill and engineered by Ali Fujino.
 
Order now: The Drachen Foundation has been allotted only a limited number of copies of this issue to sell.

 

 
Hanging by a Thread: A Kite’s View of WisconsinHanging by a Thread: A Kite’s View of Wisconsin
$23.00

Craig Wilson’s KAP tribute to his home state and to the process whereby a “kite-borne camera taught him to see pattern, textures, and shapes from above." Itchy Cat Press. Softcover, full color, 131 pp.
Hidden SymmetryHidden Symmetry
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$15.00

A personal look into Istvan Bodoczky's work creating asymmetrical kites, complete with illustrations and descriptive text. Black and white and color. The Drachen Foundation Press. Softcover, 32 pp.
India: A Kite's Eye ViewIndia: A Kite's Eye View
$40.00

With breathtaking images of India taken by kite aerial phography, photographer Nicolas Chorier offers photos from his travels of the length and breadth of India.

 

Roli Books. Full color. Hardcover. 192 pages.
Japanese Kite Prints Selections from the Skinner CollectionJapanese Kite Prints Selections from the Skinner Collection
$30.00

John Stevenson
Color woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together two of Edo's most colorful traditions, prints and kites, John Stevenson celebrates the charm and significance of the mass-produced but often elegant broadsheets known as ukiyo-e.
Cloth, 200 pp., 115 illus., 100 in color, 14 foldouts, 10" x 12"
Khmer KitesKhmer Kites
$20.00

The Drachen Foundation Press. Softcover, 56 pages.
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