Kites in chronological order after design year

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1. After Kite
2. High Tea


High Tea 		High Tea


Best indoor flier 		High Tea


The prize 		High Tea


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Used tea bags of different brands, emptied and ironed and with a template for the cut outs.

High Tea box kites.

Twinings High Tea with flying line on tag, put on a stick.

The High Tea miniture box kite is really simple to make.

When you have had tea made from a paper tea bag: keep the bag and let it dry. When dry gently remove the tag with string and keep it. Empty the bag and flatten it by ironing it.

Cut in half and cut out two rectangles at the edge where the paper is bonded. Glue a sewing thread ( < 1 m.)  on a point 2/7 of the length of the material.

When the glue has dried, open up the bag and flatten it in the other direction so it becomes a box; the opening will be a rhombus.  Tie the thread to string on the tag, punch a small hole in the tag, push the tag onto a stick and fly.

Wind up the thread on the tag after flying.

The prize was a whopping USD 150. At that time I was working on a contract in Abu Dhabi and a nephew was staying in my apartment in Sweden. The agreement was that he should forward important letters to me. Somehow he missed the letter with the cheque from Drachen Foundation and I found it only after I had returned home. Happily I took it to the bank, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, but alas: the cheque had expired!

As the High Tea was probably the most simple and least elaborated kite of all the kites in the competition – just a cut-out tea bag  – I was surprised when it won the prize as best indoor flier.

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.

 

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.

 

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.

 

As the High Tea was probably the most simple and least elaborated kite of all the kites in the competition – just a cut-out tea bag  – I was surprised when it won the prize as best indoor flier.

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.

 

As the High Tea was probably the most simple and least elaborated kite of all the kites in the competition – just a cut-out tea bag  – I was surprised when it won the prize as best indoor flier.

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.

 

The prize was a whopping USD 150. At that time I was working on a contract in Abu Dhabi and a nephew was staying in my apartment in Sweden. The agreement was that he should forward important letters to me. Somehow he missed the letter with the cheque from Drachen Foundation and I found it only after I had returned home. Happily I took it to the bank, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, but alas: the cheque had expired!

As the High Tea was probably the most simple and least elaborated kite of all the kites in the competition – just a cut-out tea bag  – I was surprised when it won the prize as best indoor flier.

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.

 

The prize was a whopping USD 150. At that time I was working on a contract in Abu Dhabi and a nephew was staying in my apartment in Sweden. The agreement was that he should forward important letters to me. Somehow he missed the letter with the cheque from Drachen Foundation and I found it only after I had returned home. Happily I took it to the bank, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, but alas: the cheque had expired!

As the High Tea was probably the most simple and least elaborated kite of all the kites in the competition – just a cut-out tea bag  – I was surprised when it won the prize as best indoor flier.

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.

 

The High Tea miniture box kite is really simple to make.

When you have had tea made from a paper tea bag: keep the bag and let it dry. When dry gently remove the tag with string and keep it. Empty the bag and flatten it by ironing it.

Cut in half and cut out two rectangles at the edge where the paper is bonded. Glue a sewing thread ( < 1 m.)  on a point 2/7 of the length of the material.

When the glue has dried, open up the bag and flatten it in the other direction so it becomes a box; the opening will be a rhombus.  Tie the thread to string on the tag, punch a small hole in the tag, push the tag onto a stick and fly.

Wind up the thread on the tag after flying.

The prize was a whopping USD 150. At that time I was working on a contract in Abu Dhabi and a nephew was staying in my apartment in Sweden. The agreement was that he should forward important letters to me. Somehow he missed the letter with the cheque from Drachen Foundation and I found it only after I had returned home. Happily I took it to the bank, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, but alas: the cheque had expired!

As the High Tea was probably the most simple and least elaborated kite of all the kites in the competition – just a cut-out tea bag  – I was surprised when it won the prize as best indoor flier.

At Dieppe kite festival 2002 Drachen Foundation organized a miniature kite competition. I had recently been playing with kites made of tea bags, so I entered the competition with High Tea, a single point box kite made of a tea bag.