Kite Design and Building Resources

In the kite flying community, flying them is only half the fun! Designing and building them is the other half! Here are a couple of resources that both work together and stand alone. Both make flying kites even more enjoyable!

Kitebuilder

Kitebuilder is a one stop shop and is setup in a forum style format. It is a wealth of information for the kite flying enthusiast, bringing together every topic and point of interest one may have. It is perfect for the new person who is just getting into kites and it also offers the veteran kite flyer something as well. Kitebuilder does require you register if you want to participate in the forum, which is highly recommended! Within the forum, you can actively participate and dialog with other enthusiast who love to participate in designing, building and flying kites!

Here are few key features of Kitebuilder

Rich and multi-topic based forum

Knowledge Base for Kite Plans and Information

List of Upcoming Festivals and Events

Workshops on designing and building kites

Auctions

Swag

Tons of links to other resources!

Speaking of Other Resources: Introducing Fly Market Kite Making Supply

If you follow the links within the workshop area, you will find Fly Market Kites who happens to sources kits of parts for some of the projects listed on the Kitebuilder site. Fly Market Kites is worthy of a few highlights, it is a fantastic site! So, check out Fly Market Kites for:

Fabric and Soft Goods

Spars, Rods, & Sticks

Connectors & Fittings

Tools

They too offer Kite Plans, Workshops and their gallery is full of gorgeous one of a kind kites!

So dive in and try your hand at building your own kite! Enjoy the fun, the camaraderie and joy of watching something you built yourself take to the air!

After discovering these two great Kiting resources, we too have dipped our toe into the kite design and build world! Scrolling through the blog articles, it is obvious we love to design and build different types of flying machines and because of this passion, it should not be a surprise that a ‘very large’ box kite derivative would be on the list, right? Follow along this box kites design experiment, it should be interesting! Learning to hand sew, this will be a challenge.