How to contact us...  The best way to contact us is by email.   Email Carveth Here... If you don't hear from us soon, it means we are at a festival and we'll get back to you when we return. You can also leave us a message on our home phone. Please leave your name and phone number and what you are interested in. (575) 758-4782

About Us...

Here is our family at the Washington State International Kite Festival a few years ago standing in front of our banners. From left to right, our daughter and son-in-law from Albuquerque, our other daughter and son-in-law from Portland and Luella, Carveth's wife, and Carveth. 

We'd love any suggestions and feedback. We are open to coming to any celebration; it just depends on timing and costs. If you are interested in buying any of the banners, drop us a line.

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"So how did you get into making all these banners?" people ask us.

The short story: Kites were not really a part of either one of our lives as kids. Carveth does remember a couple of times making a newspaper and dowel kite on his own. Kiting, and eventually banners, really entered our lives as an evolving process in the 1980s and 1990s in three phases.

Phase One – Stunt Kites. We first got excited about kites in a kite store in Canada. We then got hooked on stunt kites by a California store owner flying his kite out back instead of minding the store.

Phase Two – Kite Making: Rick Miller welcomed us to the kiting community and turned Carveth on to Steve Ferrel of Kite Studio, who taught Carveth how to build his first kite over the phone. This phase was enriched by the unique experience at the Junction Kite Making Workshops with international acclaimed instructors where we advanced from two-line stunt kites to the beauty, joy and wonder of single-line kites.

Phase Three – Banners. Also, key in phase two was Sam Pedregon, who is a kid who has never grown up and easily brings the child out in Carveth. “Hey, yah know, you should make some banners so we’d have some color on low-wind and no-wind days.” And as our friend Mike Shaw said, “You just advanced from single-line kites to no-line kites = banners.”  Artist Lisa Schimer inspired and locked Carveth into the joy of banners with her dancing figure banners and words of encouragement.

Carveth has made literally hundreds of banners over the years. He has some banners up in his backyard all the time, testing and retesting to make them better. Carveth has sold banners all across the country and in Europe. His primary joy is coming up with new designs and displaying them for others to enjoy.

Thanks,

Carveth and Luella Kramer