Sail: icarex colors
Icarex pc31 is a very light, dimensionally stable polycarbonate-coated polyester-fabric for sails of equally light kites.
The number of available colors gets smaller from time to time, and we have, in 2024, only very small amounts of some special rarities left.
Icarex PC31 means 36 g/m2 or 31 g per square yard gross weight including the polycarbonate coating on both sides. The raw weight of the uncoated polyester-ripstop-fabric would be quite a bit less, but the coating stabilizes the fabric especially along the bias. The result is a film-like material, stable and true to size.
Warp runs almost straight, weft not always. Nevertheless, icarex is a fabric of high precision.
The textile fabric, also called sail cloth, is translucent and can appear in different optical aggregate states, simplified three:
- On the roll or in several layers the saturation is very high, the colors appear bold.
- A built up kite in the studio shows a medium saturation and appears brighter.
- If you hold it against the window, the brightness increases more, while the color saturation decreases.
When floating in the sky, the weather, as usual, plays its role: diffuse or hard light, plus the color temperature depending on the time of day. The angle of the sail to the observer also affects brightness and saturation: the flatter, the more saturated the colors will be. These effects are stronger for cameras than our eyes.
The colors of our kites in icarex
These icarex colors here are usually in stock for the production of kites. 31 white and 32 silver are faster in production and often cost a bit less. Darker colors like british racing green cost a bit more and the production time is a few days longer.
31
white
32
silver
33
dark gray
36
yellow
39
superwarmred
46
blue
56
british racing green
57
neon
58
light green
60
fluo orange
Rare colors for the kites, on request
These colors are rarities and some of them are no longer officially available. They are not only hard to find, but also beautiful. The rare colors cost a bit more and the production time is a bit longer than with production colors.
34
black
35
crème
47
midnight blue
50
petrol
51
rose
52
magenta
53
grape
59
pink
pu
mint
Zero wind kites in icarex:
- De tomaso superleggera
- De tomaso volante
- De tomaso, honey
- The urban ninja ultralight
- the numbers, also some rare colors
- C'est la vie gran turismo
- C'est la vie freestyle
- C'est la vie glissando
- Like a rolling stone
- Like a rolling stone flow
- Like a rolling stone ul
- The long way home hcs
- The long way home
Some colors for the collection of an art collector
Color-sampling: compact or wing are the kite-typologies. Every sail is cut out of a single, folded piece of icarex. Except for The urban ninja with its three panels. Or 4, if it's a delightful unique duotone collector's item.
Dyneema composite fabric and the Hyperlights
Besides icarex pc31 we also use Dyneema Composite Fabric on our kites. Contrary to the name, it's not a textile fabric or cloth, but a laminate. Between two Mylar films, raw Dyneema fibres are crosswise, orthogonally baked.
The lighter, almost transparent version with about 11.5 g/m2 is used at the I'll be back urban flow edition and C'est la vie, darling, as well as leaving rome. The slightly heavier variant of Dyneema in translucent white, green, blue or silver on the Hyperlights and the urban rhythm edition of the IBB. This laminate weighs around 17.5 g/m2 and is available also in other colors from time to time, e.g. a dimmed honey hue.