It's really cool how a soaking wet umbrella will get dry in like, an hour. What did they use 100 years ago for umbrellas? Cloth? Man, that would su-uck.
Posted by: spudart on Apr 27, 07 | 5:00 am |
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Wikipedia sites a source saying the umbrella could be 2400 years old! Heck, rain might not even be that old! ;o)
Parasols and umbrellas probably (speculating here) used to be made out of fine-woven silk or oiled cloth. Probably silk in the earliest iterations, since the devices likely weren't toted around by anything but upper-class hoity-toity types. I think the teeming masses just walked around getting wet...
Posted by: skh.pcola on May 04, 07 | 1:16 pm
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