Collection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection
Collection Number: 2615
Post Type: Book
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Artist or Author: Yan Williams
Creation Year: 1996
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ISBN: 2.85108.928.5 Language: French Description: The Kites
to know them, to pilot them, to construct them
The kite is a sport that corresponds to our escape need and to our liberty thirst and of fantasy. With it, one rediscovers the pleasure to use ones hands, one learns to play with the wind, to dance with the clouds, to rediscover the joys of the nature under an unexpected angle... The pilotables and the fighters seduce the young eager one of sensations, the other models bring their virtues appeasing and premettent to the artists or to the handymen of inexhaustible occasions to develop their creativity or their fantasy, through form them and the textures more astonishing. The Notebook Nature of Yan Williams, journalist and kite enthusiast fascinated, you dive in the history of this funny one of flying object that crossed the centuries, you sign its flight techniques and you initiate to its construction principles through the plans of its clean models.
95 pages
Geographic: Australia, Canada, Germany, Peoples Republic of China, United Kingdom, United States
Materials: Carbon, Dowel, Nylon/Synthetic, Ripstop
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