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Illustration of triangular kite making

Triangular kites don't need to be tied up, just stick the skeleton to the cloth and iron it with a square cloth. Take a square meter as an example, aim one end of a one-meter bamboo stick at a corner of the cloth and stick it on the diagonal of the cloth. Take two bamboo strips with a length of 85 cm, and stick them on the cloth edges on both sides of the bamboo strips respectively, and measure down 12 cm from the top of the corners of the long bamboo strips, and stick one end of the bamboo strips on the cloth edges. Then, at the top 25 cm down, make two small rings with thin iron wire, one on each side and two on each side. The small ring is only three millimeters in diameter, which is not big. And it must be fixed on bamboo strips and cannot slide. Take a bamboo stick of about 70 cm and trim it into a square shape. When it is finished, it will be a regular arc shape, and don't be soft at one end and hard at the other. Trim both ends by 5 mm so that they can be inserted into the small ring. On the surface of the fabric, nail the string to the knot at a distance of15cm from the top, and nail the other end of the string to the knot at a distance of 40cm from the top. The length of this rope is 70 cm. Then, tie the string at two places near the top, 25 to 30 cm, into a hanging rope with a short top and a long bottom to form a ring with a diameter of 2 cm. Hang the flying line in this circle and you can fly. If you use white fabric, you need to draw it. Colored fabrics will save trouble.