Handmade Kites

Making Kites

Kites are a very popular toy and a handicraft. Making and flying kites has a long history in China. According to history, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, Gongdou Bon chipped bamboo for magpies and flew them for three days; in the Five Dynasties, there was this game in the palace; in the Song Dynasty, kites have become toys.

Kite flying is a kind of activities for young and old, which can cultivate sentiment, exercise and enrich life. Since the reform and opening up, China has organized many international kite festivals, such as the Weifang International Kite Festival in Shandong Province, which has attracted many foreigners to participate, and kites have become the messenger to promote cultural exchanges between countries. Making kites is also a useful activity, which not only makes us dexterous, but also improves our artistic cultivation and cultivates the spirit of innovation. Students have learned to "draw kites" in art class, and now they are learning to make kites.

The making of a kite is divided into several main processes, such as making a skeleton, gluing paper or silk, and painting and coloring.

A Za

Za, is to tie the skeleton. The kite skeleton should be made with bamboo gimlets, of which the basic skeleton gimlets should be wider and thicker, while the outline skeleton gimlets should be thinner and softer. The whole structure should be simple, light, symmetrical, balanced, and firmly tied.

Second paste

Paste, is the paper or silk paste on the skeleton. The paper should be thin, tough and flat.

Three Painting

Painting is to draw the pattern of the kite. The drawing should be clear, colorful and bright, and decorative. Generally, the kites are painted and then pasted, and there are also pasted and then painted or cut-and-pasted patterns.

In addition, the larger kite should pull a horizontal line at both ends of the back, so that the belly of the front of the kite is raised outward, so that the wind can make streamline movement along both sides when flying. The fuse of the kite depends on the skeleton and structure of the kite. Some use one, such as eagle, swallow and so on; some use two, such as "tofu block" and so on. Generally, three leads are used. Installation of the lead should be conducive to the kite flying into the wind, whether two or three leads are short on the top and long on the bottom, so that the angle between the kite and the ground is 45 ° when pulling up. The upper two lines are too long to release up will be downward tie, too short will not open the wind, can not release up.

Generally, the lower part of the kite should also be hung with colorful spikes, which can regulate the weight of both sides and enhance the stability and decorativeness of the kite.

In spring, the wind is even and slow, the warm air rises, and the airflow is upward, which is the best season to fly kites. Flying kites is an interesting activity, but it also needs certain skills. Whether a good kite can fly or not, you have to be able to recognize the wind direction and wind power. After flying the kite, you have to learn the skills of pumping, pulling, lifting and swinging to keep the stability of the kite when it rises or when it soars in the sky.

Very simple and easy to make kites. Simple and easy to understand,

Too simple, make a field, tie the string in the center of the field, and you'll be sweet to fly a kite. Complicated: 1. First, soak the gabions in water to soften them, then use a knife to break the gabions, about one-third of the thickness, and then trim half of the shape, because later the gabions will be pasted on the mara paper, and if the gabions are too thick, the gabions will be pulled through the paper, and if the gabions are too thick, the yarn strips won't be able to be pasted on the paper. Cut the repaired gabions into two lengths, about 16 inches and 23 inches. Next, cut the paper into a square, about 24 inches long. Mara paper is a very rough paper that is best suited for kites. 2. At this point, the gabions can be attached to the paper, but remember to tie the long gabions to one of the shorter thirds of the paper with the gauze, and then slowly bend the gabions until the ends of the long gabions touch the diagonal corners of the paper to stick them in place. 3. The tail of the kite is the main tool to balance the kite, when the kite rides on the wind, if one side is heavier, the kite will be biased to this side, and the tail is better to be longer, because the longer it is, there will be a weight on the head of the kite to make the whole body to be windy, which balances the slanting side.5. The wire of the kite can be used as cowhide wire, cotton wire, glass wire and so on. The round line reel and the row reel will tie the line on the kite, to make a diagonal angle.

How to make a kite, handmade

"Za" art A. Selection of materials The skeleton of Chinese kites is made of various kinds of bamboo, supplemented by reeds, sorghum poles, etc. The modern kites are made of various kinds of bamboo, supplemented by reeds, sorghum poles, etc. The modern kites are made of various kinds of bamboo.

Modern times began to use wood, fiberglass, carbon fiber composite materials or light metal. Bamboo is characterized by: lightweight, straight and dense fibers (skin), so there is a certain degree of strength, toughness and elasticity, can be split into a variety of specifications of the bar, processing is convenient.

It can be thermally bent and not easily deformed after shaping. The disadvantage is that the rigidity is not as good as wood.

1. Selection of bamboo species: In the selection of materials, in addition to varieties, there is a determined variety of how to choose the use of time and parts of the problem. 2: the choice of bamboo: (1) longitudinal view of an adult bamboo poles, can be roughly divided into the root, center and tip.

The root section of the dense whisker shape is not whole, can not be used. The tip is obviously thinner, and the branches are too many to be used.

You can only use the middle section of the long, thick and thin change is very small. (2) Cross-section of a bamboo, look at its end face, the most external is the bamboo skin, the skin inside the dense part of the fibrous tissue is the bamboo green, bamboo green part of the internal tissue is loose bamboo yellow, the production of kites is generally only used in the bamboo green and the bamboo skin part of the bamboo yellow to be cut off.

But how much to cut depends on the specific situation (Figure 6.1). (3) The new bamboo is easy to bend and deform with much water, so it should be placed in a cool place to dry naturally for a period of time before it can be used.

Placed a few years, very little moisture in the bamboo brittle and hard, not easy to bend, and generally rarely used. Of course, there is no long years of young bamboo and many years in the ground are naturally cracked old bamboo can not be used.

Second, the split bamboo As the bamboo texture is straight, so can be used to "split" method of processing. 1. What is called "split"? It is different from the "cut": "split" refers to the natural grain along the bamboo to tear it, rather than cut with the blade (see Figure 6.2).

2. Splitting bamboo three steps (see Figure 6.3): (1) incision; (2) split people; (3) set aside. 3. split bamboo tools: Although the general knife can also split small baskets, but to split large bamboo must have a special tool.

4. Preparation of bamboo: Generally, the harvested round bamboo for primary processing, the preparation of bamboo panels to be used. The steps are as follows: (1) remove the bamboo roots and tips.

(2) cut into about 1 ~ 1.5 meters of round bamboo section. (3) Split the round bamboo section into 8 bamboo boards of about the same width.

(4) The bamboo board every 10 pieces of a bundle, neatly bundled and air-dried for use. Third, chipping bamboo chipping is the finishing process after chopping, is to use the blade of the knife in chipping and scraping the bamboo material, so that it is processed into a variety of different widths, thicknesses and slopes of bamboo strips that are needed for the production of various kite parts in my Tri.

Using woodworking planer to plane bamboo boards has become a common method for everyone. Fourth, bending bamboo An important characteristic of bamboo is that at a certain temperature its structure becomes soft, it is easy to bend, and it can be shaped by cooling in the bending state.

Utilizing this characteristic of bamboo, we can make all kinds of complicated parts. The delicacy of Chinese kites is also related to the use of this bamboo material that can be bent at will.

1. Heat source: Various heat sources can be used to process bamboo, and candles and kerosene lamps are used in traditional Chinese kite making. The bamboo strips are evenly heated to a certain temperature on the heat source.

It is necessary to keep turning the bamboo strips and moving them back and forth so that all parts of them are gradually heated. After preheating to a certain temperature, the bamboo strips become soft and can be bent.

But the bending should be moderate, steady and accurate bending, it is best to succeed once. Bending on the soldering iron can be done in sections, and finally bent into a larger arc, a small arc is a bend.

The bamboo skin is easy to bend outward, and the bamboo skin is difficult to bend inward. After bending, you can put the bamboo strips into cold water to make it cool and set.

V. Connection Connect the bamboo parts together to form the whole skeleton of the kite. There are many ways to connect, among which the most used one in traditional Chinese kite making is tying, so "tying" is put in the first place in the "four arts".

In fact, in addition to the "tie", there are also buckle wedge, live head, plugging and so on.

The paper used for kite gluing requires long fiber, toughness, thinness and lightness, small air permeability, good coloring, and small deformation caused by temperature change. Traditional large kites often use composite materials masking, that is, silk with cotton paper or leather paper to bitch.

This material is strong, airtight, good coloring, with paper and silk are incomparable performance. Nylon silk, brocade silk, non-woven fabric and plastic film, are very good materials.

They are airtight, not afraid of water, the first three are much stronger than paper and silk. There are many varieties of plastic film, some extremely thin, weighing only 1/10 of the weight of the paper.

But it also brings new problems, such as coloring, gluing can not be used in a new way. This will be discussed later in the "paste", "painting".

Second, cutting Cutting Cutting refers to the masking of the material, just like cutting clothes. 1. Taking shape: It is easy to take shape on the plane part of the kite, as long as the masking material is spread on the kite drawing to draw down the shape, then it is finished.

But there are a lot of curved surfaces on the kite, such as the wing of the swallow, which is a complex surface, you must use a piece of paper to put on the skeleton of the wing of the swallow and cut it down along the edges, and then draw it on the masking material according to the paper pattern. 2. Edge: the material must be slightly larger than the edge of the paper sample, and should be slightly larger than the paste masking the edge of the roll used.

3, texture: whether it is paper or textiles, most have their own texture direction, must consider the texture of the material, be sure to make the kite left and right texture symmetry, and try to avoid the use of tilted texture. 4. Save material: Without affecting the above three requirements, how to save material is the problem that should be paid attention to when the material is placed.

3. Gluing: How to glue the mask onto the kite skeleton is the key to the gluing art. 1. Gluing: Before gluing the paper, glue is often put on the skeleton.

What kind of glue is used and how to put it on the skeleton? This is the problem to be solved in this section. Glued paper, silk, the best glue is latex (polyvinyl acetate emulsion), and the concentration of glue depends on the paste material, in principle, the paste the thinner the material, do not want to be very strong, can be used to dilute the glue.

The paste material strength, the requirements of the glue strength is also large, the glue should be thicker. The best way to apply glue with a brush gently coated in the skeleton, the glue should be uniform.

Be careful not to leave a lot of glue in the corners of some skeleton, which will make the masking uneven. 2. Masking: masking to a well-glued skeleton should be placed accurately on the skeleton, as little as possible to move.

Otherwise, the glue will be wiped off. Masking on the skeleton should be flat, the degree of elasticity in all places should be opposite, never tight in some places and loose in others, which will cause the kite.

Who has the process diagram of making a kite, the division of labor is clear, kneeling request!!!!

The rhombus kite practice generally uses bamboo for the skeleton and paper for the meat.

Bamboo is the main material for making how to make a kite skeleton. Select the bamboo with a wall thickness of 3-5 centimeters and cut it into bamboo slices, using the toughness of the bamboo slices to make the skeleton of the kite.

According to your own preferences to make a variety of kite skeleton, such as dragonfly, butterfly. Paper is the main material of kite, it is better to have thin fiber, long and even, full of toughness, moisture and impact resistance, and white and clean color.

Paste the paper on the skeleton, and then tie the line, the kite is done. The practice of paper kites with fine bamboo sticks: 2 long (40-50 cm, criss-crossed for the skeleton), 4 short (around the border, made into a rectangular more stable and balanced) Firmly tied (with a fine wire, or to ensure that the adhesive force is strong enough strong adhesive), paste the paper, choose the paper should be resilient, can not be thin can not be brittle, along the border of the paste solid, the process to ensure that the paper is complete and flat, can not be a little bit of breakage, or not to fly up; stick tail, with a lighter paper two, about the width of a small, white clean good. Stick the tail, use two pieces of lightweight paper, about 5-8cm wide, 3m-10m in length (if there is a special need, it can be longer), two pieces of paper are stuck on the left and right ends of the same side of the main body (if the main body is a rectangle, stick it on the shorter side), make sure that the length of the two tails after sticking them well is equal Tie the lines, fix the ends of the four lines in the corners of the main body, pull them up in one place (so that the line is a quadrangular cone), tighten them and tie them in a knot in your hand (the lines should be pulled positively to make sure that the strength is even). (the line should be pulled correctly, to ensure that the strength of the average) Tie the kite line, finished At this point, you can also do a good job in the kite painted with your favorite colors, lace, or tied with ribbons, hanging paper rings.

But it should not affect the kite's flying in the air, because too many attachments will make the kite fly unbalanced. (1) 2 pine or spruce sticks (0.6 cm thick, 1 cm wide, and 90 cm long) (2) kite-facing material (plastic, etc.) (3) string (4) scissors (5) a wooden ruler (6) sticky strips (7) a small saw (8) chalk (9) wood glue With the help of an adult, use a small saw to cut a notch at the port of each stick (see Figure 5-1).

Be careful not to point the saw at yourself. Measure out the center of one of the sticks, make a mark, and place this mark on a point on the other stick that is 20 cm from the end of this stick (see Figure 5-2).

Glue the two crossed sticks together with wood glue and tie them together by wrapping the string around them a few times (see Figure 5-3). Straighten the string and wrap it along the four sawed-off nicks to create an outer frame for the kite (see Figure 5-4).

Pull the string tight and tie the ends of the string into a knot. At each of the notches where the string has been wrapped around the four ends of the wooden frame, wrap the string around a few more times with a firm loop and then tie it off.

Now the kite's frame is complete. Place the kite's frame on a piece of plastic wrap in order to make a sample.

The horizontal stick should be tightly attached to the plastic surface underneath. Draw the sample with chalk.

It should be drawn 2.5 centimeters outside the perimeter of the line along the kite frame to allow the extra edge to fold over to cover the string. Carefully cut out the sample along the drawn line.

Then fold the extra plastic over to cover the string and glue them tightly with adhesive strips. Now, tie a piece of string to the notch at one end of the horizontal stick, make a bend in this stick of about 10 centimeters of curvature, and then tie the other end of the string to the other end of the horizontal stick.

Add the *** sleeve and, with the help of an adult, make a small hole where the two sticks meet. Using a piece of string about 150 centimeters long, attach one end of the string through the hole to the intersection of the sticks, and attach the other end of the *** sleeve to the notch in the stick at the bottom of the kite. Attach the string for the kite to the *** sleeve so that it is about 90 centimeters from the notch at the bottom of the kite and about 60 centimeters from the hole where you attached the *** sleeve to the kite.

Keep adjusting this knot up and down to keep the kite stable. This kite does not need a tail and can be flown in light winds.

Remember to fly the kite in a wider area and avoid high voltage lines. How to make an octagonal kite Generally speaking, octagonal kites are suitable to be flown in windy conditions, and the experience of flying them shows that: the more windy the kite is, the greater the angle at which the kite can be flown.

Because it belongs to the category of hard beat, there is no place for lag wind, so the kite's wind state has a close relationship with the change of wind power, if the wind power is unstable in size, the Bagua kite is very interesting to fly with one lift and one fall. The skeleton of the Bagua consists of two square frames, and the general size of the square skeleton is between 500-1000mm.

Just the size of the two squares is required to be the same, according to the size of the kite, the size of 500mm can be set up with only one vertical bamboo strip (picture left). Larger than this size should be set up with a cross-shaped skeleton, and the bamboo strips should be larger in size, in terms of thickness than width.

In the case of a 500mm Bagua kite, the four bamboo strips that make up the square are all 3mm wide and 500mm long. Tie two square skeletons with the sharpened bamboo strips, and then just tie the two squares together to form the octagon as shown in the diagram.

The masking material of the kite is customized. The kite's lifting lines are three, positioned as shown in the picture.

Like the tadpole kite, the kite is also drawn into an arc with a thin line on the center part of the kite when it is flown to facilitate the kite to catch the wind when it is flying. The paintings of gossip kites are usually in traditional gossip patterns.

The tail of the gossip kite is usually made by tying a paper spike to a thin string. The practice of tadpole kite This kind of kite is very simple to make, the material requirements are not very high, as long as according to the picture (Figure right) production can achieve the purpose of flying.

The bamboo skeleton used in this kite has only two bamboo strips horizontally and vertically, and the size of the kite is usually about 450mm wide, too big or too small is not suitable. For example, the width and height of the horizontal bamboo strips are 3.5mm and 3mm respectively. If you want to reduce the weight, you can cut it symmetrically to 2mm in width and 2mm in height at the tip of the side.

Vertical bamboo strips are 3.5 millimeters wide and 620 millimeters long. Tie the horizontal and vertical bamboo strips together.

Since this kite belongs to the semi-hard racket type kite in structure, and the wind force needed for flying is usually around level 3, so for beginners, you can not worry too much about the width and thickness of the bamboo strips. If the structure is heavier, it needs a little more wind when flying.

The masking material can be made of leather paper, rice paper, non-woven fabric, plastic film, silk, nylon silk, etc. If the paper is used, the edge should be wrapped with a fine line to prevent tearing. The masking material and bamboo strips glued together at the end of the sticky 40 millimeters wide, 1500-3000 millimeters long with.