Festivals involving millions of people and kites are held each January in Ahmenabad, India. Kites are sold on the street in simple stalls like this. Lightweight paper kites are used in India for fighting on glass coated line. The loser is cut free. Gill Marcus stitches pop art into each of his kites.
Italian festivals feature large kites and banner shows.
One Italian team has created a symphony of instrument kites that they fly to music. Roughly 200 of these huge kites are destroyed each year in the kite battles of Shirone. This is a humming Bee Kite made by Satoshi Hashimoto. The bee is crafted from rice paper and bamboo that has been aged for more than 100 years. Small, lightweight and completely natural.