Retail rates
butterfly design: Small (140 cm width) US$ 6.00/pc, Medium (180 cm width) US$ 8.50/pc, Large (200 cm
width) US$ 12.00/pc Serpent Design: Small (140 cm width) US$ 12.00/pc, Medium (180 cm width)
US$ 31.00/pc, Large (200 cm width) US$ 65.00 Bird Design: Small (140 cm width) US$ 6.00/pc,
Medium (180 cm width) US$ 8.50/pc, Large (200 cm width) US$ 12.00/pc Kaswari Bird Design:
Small (140 cm width) US$ 6.00/pc, Medium (180 cm width) US$ 8.50/pc, Large (200 cm width) US$ 12.00/pc
Flying a kite in Bali has been known from immemorial times. Flying kite is not only for recreation of
children but also adult or even older people. Good time to fly kite in Bali are during July and August.
Bali has an even of kite festivals during that months. When kite festival take place it is not only
individual that participates in the kite fetival but also groups, even villages. member of participant
from villages usually make a big kite, with the size sometimes more then 10 meters. They must transport
the kite to the festival field with big truck and often block the traffice, causing complains that make
people late to arrive at their working place. A set of Bali traditional music also follow the festival
which makes the situation so a bustling and deafning situation. Among the participants also a great
creativity in making their design of kites. The make any shape from animal, motor bike, plane, and other
traditional shapes such as outline of fish, quadrangular pain, snakes are still remains in the contest.
The making of kite in Bali also aimed to be sold to the market both domestic and international. Even
today the production of kite for sales is developed to a knock down construction to minimize space
dring transport. The construction of this type are almost the sme for all designs, as the designs are
taken from birds, bees, boats, and other flying animals. The quality is usually grouped into two
categories such as better kites are printed with accrylic and lower quality kites are printed by wall
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