Kite flying needs great skill and lots of pocket-money. So when a boy, I remained an enthusiastic onlooker and tried to loot other people's kites which were cut during fights.
Fine paper is used in making kites.
This is strung on a frame of thin bamboo, one standing lengthwise, the other like a bow across it. The kite paper is pasted on the frame with glue. About three inches from the top, and four inches from the bottom of the lengthwise stick, fine thread treated with powdered glass, is fixed, forming a triangle. This is attached to hundreds of yards of thread, also treated with powdered glass and wound around a reel. The thread on the reel revolves in the hands of the learner as the expert flies the kite.