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The craft of kite making is an age old tradition of the Subcontinent and the kitemakers has a practice based specialized knowledge of kite making. Through oraltransmission of knowledge there is a repertoire of kite making conventions that isfully consistent with the laws of aero dynamics. This paper discusses the laws ofphysics, particularly in relation to forces that act upon a kite and then explores theshapes and structures of kites in the light of practices that go into their making. Thepaper shows that each convention that kite makers follow corresponds to a scientificconsideration although the kite makers are oblivious of it.