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.
Dry Umbrellas
Happening right now on Spudart: Press a leaf in an envelope with the date and story written on it until 2026-10-31
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…