Flying a kite can help you get out of your head and enjoy a peaceful afternoon with friends. The best beach kites come with attached kite strings, have a design that suits your needs, and come in fun ...

After teaching kite pattern design, Guo Hongli, the renowned kite-maker from Weifang, shows how to build a kite framework by making a small cross of two pieces of light wood. [Photo by Zhao ...

It's spring. Wind's up. Time to break out the kites. Last weekend, I brought home a simple, solidly built $10 kite for the next clear, windy weekend day. Knowing that our preschooler won't be terribly ...

If you plan it right, kite flying can be a breeze. That’s never quite been the case with us, but maybe that’s because we’d routinely buy the cheapest drugstore kite we could find, get painful string ...

You may not often see kites lining the Chattanooga sky, but after Oct. 8, that's bound to change. At least, Chuck Jones hopes it will. That Saturday, thousands are expected to be drawn to the ...

The 75-year-old Zhang Xiaodong, an inheritor of the kite-making technique, is also ready to appear with his kites at the festival for the 42nd time. On Zhang's workshop table lies a notebook, in which ...