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Handmade umbrellas with the best fabrics and a wide variety of top quality wooden handles

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Fantastic fabrics allow beautiful color combinations and elegant contrasts.

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Why can you smell rain?

Why can you smell rain?

  Rain is water and water is odorless. But then where does the special smell come from that you can only smell after a summer rain and why does it ...

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The history of the umbrellas

The history of the umbrellas

England - and particularly London - is known for its rainy weather, and accordingly regarded as a city of umbrellas. So it should come as no surpri...

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