Picasso Meets Sewing Machine Artists - Fanø 2018

kite.builders has an article about our Fanø Kitemakers Workshop.

"...Meanwhile, the men tried the sewing machines. Eli and Shula Shavit from Israel taught the "Tessellating Pinwheels Ohashi Sail Design" in their workshop as part of the Fanø Kitemakers. That sounds complicated and it is - until you know how it works. 17 participants participated in the workshop at the Fanø school, where six kites were completed at the workshop and the remaining kites completed at home."

More photos from the workshop can be seen here.

Lupa Smartphone Photography Competition

The International Photography Festival is holding The Lupa Smartphone Photography Competition.

As its website banner, they chose a photo showing several of our kites! 

Here's the original photo:

Credit: Felix Lupa

Kiting Magazine Cover - 2015

We are featured on the cover of AKA's Kiting Magazine!

A Local Community TV News Report about Kites

Kites over Jaffa

Yaffo-Portal covered a fun fly in Jaffa.

Attending kitefliers: Eli & Shula Shavit, Suli Omer, Vladimir Zviaginzev, Meir Tannenbaum and Idan Schwartz.

Kite Connections Fly High

Old friends from around the world gather to share enthusiasm at international event. By Aaron Besecker from The Buffalo News:

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On the third day of the event, which started Thursday in Niagara Falls State Park, all colors and shapes of kites filled the skies above Reservoir State Park.

At the other end of the kite string were other fliers.

Eli and Shula Shavit, who came from Jerusalem, have been traveling internationally to kite festivals since the mid-1980s.

Flying kites always has been a family activity, said Eli Shavit, whose daughter, Keren, lives in Buffalo. They try to make it to two international festivals a year, Eli Shavit said.

Like many Israeli youngsters, Shavit said he made kites as a child. He got involved again after buying a how-to book in Sacramento, Calif.

“The colors and shapes against the blue skies — there’s nothing better than this,” he said.

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Niagara International Kite Festival - 2007

This week we'll be at the 2007 Niagara International Kite Festival USA.

Here's a short article from the Buffalo Rising newspaper about it, featuring our Bols:

Once again, the kite fliers at LaSalle Park struck gold. The winds could not have been better (that's coming from a casual observer), and though the attendance was low (being a weekday and all), spirits and the kites were flying high. This year there were some crowd favorites that included two gigantic low flying circular color wheels, along with the infamous Berkeley Kite Wrangler 'Octopile'. The winds were blowing so well that the creatures danced across the sky while being chased by an oversized scuba diver, who in turn was being shadowed by a couple of small sharks. The sight was something to behold.

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Israel Museum Kite Event - Aug. 2007

This is the Museum's newspaper advertisements (English and Hebrew press) for its yearly kite event, the Afifoniada.
After the success of last years talk, we were invited, again, to give a presentation about our family's kite history and adventures.
The ad shows our "Twisted Flowers" Kite, our "American Bandanna" Delta Kite and the Genki Bird.

New Neighbourhood Community Center Opening Event Brochure - July 2007

Kite workshop & kite flying - We were invited to instruct a workshop and fly our kites.

Israel Museum Jul-Sep 2007 Event Program

Israel Museaum Kite Event - Aug. 2006

This is the Museum's newspaper advertisement for its yearly kite event, the Afifoniada.
This year, we were invited to give a talk about our family's kite history and adventures.
The ad shows our "Bedspread Kite".

Stockholm Kite Festival - 1998