About Wau Bulan Moon Kite
The wau bulan is the crescent moon-kite of Kelantan, Malaysia — a bamboo frame skinned in colored tissue and dressed in lacy floral-and-vine cut-paper overlays. Museum pieces show a dark purple ground edged in green piping, with symmetric leaf scrollwork and sunburst foliage in green, red, gold and pink.
This design system distills that craft into digital form: a deep purple field, emerald border piping, and densely layered ornament that radiates symmetrically from a center, the way paste-on foliage climbs a kite's wings.
- Origin
- Malaysia — Kelantan, east-coast peninsula
- Era
- 1950–1990 (living folk craft, peak documentation era)
- Key figures
- Kelantanese kite masters (tukang wau) · Cut-paper artisans
- Movements
- Malay folk kite-making · Cut-paper (sulaman kertas) decorative craft
Wau Bulan Moon Kite design spec
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