Visit Kite Wars
Six benches
A market that makes things, not just sells them
Official
The Kite Wars shop
Kites, cover faces, caps, tees, pins and posters — the same catalog as the online store, no shipping to pay.
Open all four days · card and cash
Makers
Kite builders' bench
Haitian builders working in the open — paper, palm rib, thread — selling finished kites and taking commissions.
Eight benches · watch it being made
Artisans
Haitian art and craft
Cut-metal work from Croix-des-Bouquets, painted canvases, beadwork, sequin flags and printmaking.
Thirty tables · nothing mass-produced
Free
The repair bench
Tape, thread, spare spars and four volunteers who can bring a cut kite back into the next bracket in ten minutes.
Free · competitors and spectators alike
Trade
The swap table
Leave a kite, take a kite. Cut kites nobody claims end up here, and by day four they have all found owners.
No money changes hands
Learn
Demonstration stage
Half-hourly demonstrations: bridling, bowing the head, tail weight, and how a marshal seals a blade.
Every 30 minutes · free seating
Free services
Three things that cost nothing
A championship is only as good as its repair bench. These run all four days and no one is charged for them.
Repair bench
Free
Structural repairs, re-bridling, spar replacement and cover patching while you wait.
Kite check
Free
Bring any single-line kite and a marshal will tell you whether it passes the dimension and line rules before you register.
Name your kite
Free
Hand-lettering on your cover face by the printmakers — your name, your town, your crew.
On the tables
Priced for a field, not a gift shop
Haitian-styled kite
$95
The competition frame with one cover face. Includes a 2027 individual entry.
Builder's commission kite
$90 +
Made to order at the bench in your colors, collected the next morning.
Cover faces
$28
Pack of three printed founding-edition faces, fits every Kite Wars frame.
Hand-painted face
$45
One-off, painted at the artisan tables while you wait.
Field cap
$32
Washed cotton, embroidered mark, stiff brim.
Koupe Fil tee
$36
Heavyweight cotton, lane number on the back.
Cut-metal wall piece
$40 +
Croix-des-Bouquets metalwork, kite and blade motifs.
Line and spares roll
$24
Championship-legal line, hardwood winder, spare spars, thread, tape.