Whats Best For Making Kites?
Kite paper can be just about any kind of paper, but making kites fly really well requires more than just ordinary writing paper. The main properties required are strength and light weight. Having said that, I’m going to touch on the whole variety of paper used in modern kite-making. Modern paper kites cover the whole range, from super-quick designs that barely fly, through to carefully crafted traditional kites that shoot up high on the barest puff of wind. So, what kinds of kites are made with paper sails anyway? A few moments with my thinking cap on resulted in 3 very broad categories, to answer that question. One category is covered in each of the sections below… Western Kid’s Kites Going back to at least the middle of the 1900s, kites for children were available in shops. The bulk of these used paper for sail material. Although shop-bought kites now use mainly plastic or nylon, kite-making workshops for kids still often feature paper or tissue for sails. The simple Diamond is a c
