Halyard & CroftKite Works · Falmer Point · est. 1931

Journal

Notes from the bench and the field

Wind logs, workshop notes and the occasional argument, published when the weather allows the typing.

2026-10-04 · Field notes

What the wind did in September

A month of gusts, one record flight, and the day the Serpent got away from us for ninety honest seconds.

2026-09-12 · Workshop

Why we still sew paper

Reed paper tears, creases and hates the rain. It also flies with a lightness nothing synthetic has matched, and we can prove it.

2026-08-21 · Workshop

The knot drawer

Twelve knots every kite flyer should own, with diagrams drawn by hand because the scanning machine keeps eating the lark's head.