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One of the charms of this city is to find neighborhoods with their own very peculiar traditions. For years, going all afternoon on Loop, near San Angel, I saw kites very considerable height, and not a lot! And I wondered if this was a family tradition or something and wanted to write about, which meant doing field research for which I have not had time. Fortunately, yesterday, of Reform, went ahead and posted this note.
The San Angel papaloteros compete among themselves as the protagonist of the book Kite .
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For Yaokóatl Chavez (29-Mar-2010) .-

supported only by a thread, rice paper figures cut through the air south of the City Mexico.
In Colonia Jardines de San Angel Inn, in Alvaro Obregon, children, youth and adults as Luis, Brian Henry, Mark and Elisa, keep the taste for flying kites.
From Loop South, near San Angelo, you can see pieces of paper flying.
it is no accident, since the area is cerca de la Colonia Progreso, donde se ubica la sastrería La Tradición IV, atendida por la familia Hernández, en donde se venden y fabrican estas artesanías.
Brian y Luis, de 8 y 14 años de edad, encuentran en los papalotes un pasatiempo mejor que la televisión o los videojuegos.
"Me llena volar un papalote, me satisface", dice Brian.
Los niños y jóvenes no sólo ven elevarse sus figuras tradicionales de papel, sino que compiten entre ellos para derribarlas.
"Los elevamos, y si hay otros (papalotes) echas competencias con ellos.
"Debes de jalar rápido tu hilo para que el otro se reviente. Son los fines de semana cuando, junto con mis primos, volamos papalotes. Volar un Kiting is something father because people can not, "says Enrique, 15.
From a rooftop, and his cousin Luis Enrique compete against Brian's friends, and looking down the kites of opponents.
The fun is possible also for the brothers Mark and Elisa Hernandez, who is engaged in the production of kites, 4, 6 and even 8-woods for 30 years.
"Making kites is a therapy, is a way to get out of the routine tailoring. (Our) older brothers did the kites after us and we learned how we started, "says Mark.
Elisa recalls that he enjoyed seeing how his brothers were the kites and liked it but also opened my eyes to a possible business.
"Being here in the tailoring was business as we saw it was because my brother Mark is the one that began its development and I started to help. The best sellers are the hexagonal" he explains.
kite lovers, even from other areas because they know that tailoring is more than a place to repair clothes, such as Jose Felipe Espindola, who brings her two children to make kites.
The child chooses a white kite in the shape of a puma on pink paper, her brother takes a kite black with the mask of "Scream Scary Movie" in white.
"Today we come for two kites, string and glue, because without tail just do not fly, "said Espindola." Flying a kite is like watching a campfire or waterfall, (...) is a relaxing activity.
A tailoring clients come twice a week to buy attachments as spools of thread or glue fabric, but there are manufactured diamonds, hexagons and octagons in various designs, ranging from Canadian maple leaves, kittis masks, wrestlers, football team logos, to abstract designs in various colors.
" (Flying Kite) brings you back to childhood, you come to feel like a child, "says Hector, Elisa's nephew and son of Mark." The kites are creative things that can lead to many ideas beyond video games. To fly a kite you need to show your sensitivity, your creativity and even your personality. "

Butterflies without wings kite
The word comes from Nahuatl and means" butterfly. "Their prices vary:
• cost 20 pesos comets four suits wood, 40 inches in diameter.
• 80 pesos the cost of six wickets, 80 inches in diameter.
• comets cost 200 pesos eight sticks of 1.20 meters in diameter.
• 40 pesos cost of the web of thread of 270 meters.
• cost 10 pesos fabric queues.

Where to go:
• Tailoring "Tradition IV" Street located in Tamaulipas, corner of Jalapa, Colonia Álvaro Obregón Progress.
• Telephone: 5681-3536 and 5683-0777.
• Email: papalotesglob@hotmail.com

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