Japanese-style kites will soar above Central Park Stapleton in Denver Tuesday and Wednesday during the city’s first ever Japanese Kite Festival. A venerated tradition passed down through generations, ...

In Weifang, Shandong province, kites are not just toys. They symbolize both culture and an industry for the city. Widely known as the world capital of kites, Weifang has a history of flying kites ...

When a couple decided to make Lufkin their retirement home, they struggled with what activity to take up as a golden years hobby. Bass fishing? Not interested. Hunting? Not it. It was a chance ...

On a recent afternoon with springtime in the rising breeze, something else wonderful was in the air: a kite. Shortly, a second kite took flight as well. Like bookends separated by a row of volumes, ...

Kite prices in Maharashtra have surged by 40% due to rising raw material costs, impacting the Rajput family's traditional kite-making business. Despite challenges, the family continues to produce ...

Huddled over piles of colourful paper, Mohammad Yunus is one among thousands of workers in India's western state of Gujarat who make kites by hand that are used during a major harvest festival. People ...

A kite-obsessed designer ventures into the wild blue yonder with a soaring bamboo beauty. R. Kelly might have put it best in “I Believe I Can Fly:” “I think about it every night and day/spread my ...

Han Fuling, 82, holds two of his kites at his apartment in Weifang, China on June 26, 2014. Weifang is known as China's kite capital, and Han is one of the city's most revered kite artists. But during ...