Building Kites by the Sea

A tile-roofed wooden building on a harbour pier, with boats on the water and eight rooms in two rows. In the top row, a costume store holds robes, feathered wings and a colour wheel, a wind pattern archive has arrow charts and a woman writing at a slanted desk, a string studio has a man turning a large wheel of blue cord, and a judges' room has medals, portraits and a scoring board. In the bottom row, two workers plane long bamboo strips beside kite frame plans, a girl and a boy paint a dragon and flowers on kite paper, a weaver works tall frames of braided tassels and knotted cords, and two people check a butterfly kite on a balance scale. Eight rooms in two straight rows sit over the water like a tidy grid, each craft keeping its own patch of colour.