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Kite flying is legal in Punjab only during the announced festival window. Until the government permits sale for Basant 2027, we take reservations only: reserve free and pay the market rate on delivery day, or pay 50% now to lock today's price. Nothing ships before sale is permitted.
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Kite classes, sizes, string ply and prices — what to buy and what it should cost.
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Kite prices in Lahore move daily through Basant season. Gudda ran roughly Rs. 60–200 each at the 2026 festival and cotton pinna Rs. 4,000–12,000 a spool, depending on ply. Here is the reference table, and what we currently charge.
Tawa describes how much paper goes into a kite, running from 1 tawa upward. The bigger the grade, the more wind it needs and the harder it pulls. For an ordinary Lahore rooftop, 1 to 1.5 tawa is the comfortable range.
Patang is the standard kite most rooftops fly. Gudda is the larger class — more surface, more pull, more wind needed. Both are legal, both are size-capped, and most rooftops end up owning some of each.
Legal 9-ply cotton dor sells by the piece — 1,000 yards of wound thread — usually as 2, 4 or 6-piece pinna balls. As of 28 August 2026, our shelf runs Rs. 6,000–7,800 per 2 pieces (2,000 yards) depending on the string name, with 4 and 6-piece balls at exact multiples. In the 2026 season, comparable 2-piece balls quoted anywhere from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 8,500 across sellers — the spread comes from name premiums, timing, and balls that aren't the length claimed.
Plan around 2 pieces (2,000 yards) of cotton dor per casual flyer for a full Basant day, and 4 pieces for anyone flying duels aggressively — every lost pecha costs the line that went with the kite. A typical 4-flyer family rooftop lands at 8–12 pieces for the festival's main day; a 10–12 person duel-heavy roof can burn 30 pieces and be glad it bought them.
Patang pricing follows the making: more paper (higher githi), more bamboo work and a properly tensioned bow cost real craft hours, so a serious patang costs several times a small commodity kite. As of 28 August 2026 our 4.5 githi patang lists at Rs. 1,500 single or Rs. 18,000 for a raqam (the patang dozen), against 2026-season commodity patang at Rs. 800–900. Prices climb hardest in the season's final week.
The gudda is the broad, steady workhorse kite of Lahore rooftops — easier to fly than a big patang, with real pull once the wind rises. It's graded by paper quantity in tawa: 1 tawa (Rs. 300 today) is the sensible first kite, 1.5 tawa (Rs. 450) the step up, and the Fancy (Rs. 650) is the same 1.5 frame wearing printed designs — taj circles, card suits — that stay recognisable at full line.
Buying kites online in Pakistan is legitimate when three checks pass: the seller holds (and shows) government registration, the stock is QR-verifiable to a licensed manufacturer, and the delivery terms respect the law — nothing ships outside the permitted sale window, with cash-on-delivery or a clearly refundable deposit. Any seller failing a check, or promising delivery "right now" out of season, is the listing to close.
Book the 1 tawa gudda (Rs. 300 today) if this is your first season back, your rooftop is enclosed, or your wind arrives soft and swirling — it forgives everything a returning flyer does. Book the 1.5 tawa (Rs. 450) if you flew last season and your roof catches clean wind — the extra paper climbs harder and holds duels steadier. Most rooftops book both: 1 tawa as the fleet, 1.5 as the sharp end.
Githi is the patang's paper-quantity grading — the patang equivalent of the gudda's tawa system. The ladder people actually search runs 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5 and 6 githi, climbing from manageable rooftop patang to expert-only frames. More githi means more paper, a stronger bow, more wind required and harder pull — and above the mid-grades, kites that exceed the legal size caps or the average rooftop's conditions stop being sensible buys.
In the kite trade, a raqam is a dozen patang — twelve big kites, the unit serious buyers order in. The word belongs to patang specifically: gudda sell by the plain dozen, and string sells by the piece (1,000 yards) wound into pinna balls of 2, 4 or 6 pieces. Knowing these four units — raqam, dozen, piece, pinna — is the whole vocabulary of ordering correctly.
Flying a patang is a two-person launch followed by one repeated skill: the pinch-and-release. A partner holds the kite downwind and lofts it on your signal; you take up tension, then climb by alternating short, firm tugs (which pitch the kite's nose up) with controlled line release (which lets it rise). Height comes from rhythm, not strength — and control comes from keeping just enough tension that the kite always answers your hand.
Patang udane ka tarika three moves mein hai: hawa ka rukh parho (face the wind), partner se launch karao (kite 20–30 feet downwind, signal par loft), phir kheech-aur-dheel ka rhythm — short tug se nose upar, controlled dheel se kite climb. Taaqat nahi, rhythm — that's the entire secret, and everything else on this page is refinement.
Light paper kites fly from roughly 5–8 km/h of steady breeze; a 1 tawa gudda wants 8–15 km/h; heavier grades — 1.5 tawa and serious githi patang — perform from the mid-teens upward. Lahore's festival months sit right in that band: February averages around 14–15 km/h winds with ~24°C highs, and March brings warmer afternoons whose thermal stirring favours the bigger kites — one quiet advantage of Basant 2027's 12–14 March dates.
Legal kite string in Punjab is thread-based cotton — the 2026 specification allowed a maximum of 9 threads (9-tar), wound in round pinna balls. "Ply" (or cord/tar) counts the threads twisted together; "glace" describes the smooth polished finish of quality cotton lines; and the numbers in traditional string names — 8 Chain, 100 Escort, 35 Minar — are brand identity, not measurements. Everything coated, synthetic or metallic sits outside the law entirely.