Umbrella makers have found their January production down 90 percent from the year before.

Umbrella makers: Timpson Group reported a 47 per cent increase.

"Actually two: one ivory, one white, so the umbrella maker wouldn't know the color of the dress."

The weather will favour the umbrella maker!

His parents, in an effort to rid him of his natural pride, apprenticed him to an umbrella maker.

Unless you're an umbrella maker.

After the war he traveled around Queensland working as a sugar cane cutter, umbrella maker, steam-engine driver, and gold-prospector.

The scheme was suggested by the Female Umbrella Makers' Union of New York.

On a print by Kuniyoshi, an umbrella maker chases after his parasols, which have been blown skyward by the wind.

And chief among the precipitation profiteers is Burt Biderman, umbrella maker and wholesaler.

The umbrella makers' world comes alive in many other items, including an anonymous late-19th-century photograph of two craftsmen at work in a sea of papered spokes.

(The swordstick featured in the title sequence was made by venerable English umbrella maker James Smith & Sons.)

He also is the authorized United States representative for the venerable English umbrella maker, Swaine Adeney Brigg.

Swaine Adeney Brigg is a British luxury bridle leather luggage maker and umbrella maker and retailer founded in 1750.

Richard Butler was an umbrella maker, cutlery sharpener of scissors and knives, and china restorer by trade, and established a shop in the Adelaide Arcade.

A CHILLBOX manufacturer, clockmaker and umbrella maker are among a group of business people taking their wares to Belgium.

Realistic recreations of everyday life, work, mood and character- farmers, weavers, rag pickers, basket makers, umbrella makers - are yet other specialties of Krishnanagar dolls.'

Consider them ammunition in the uphill fight that Larry Shaw and this country are waging against foreign trade competitors, in particular, the silent, insidious ranks of overseas umbrella makers.

Kent later worked for Bain Capital from 1997 to 2001 as senior vice president of global wholesale for umbrella maker Totes Isotoner Corp, which at the time was a Bain Capital portfolio company.

At the edge of the quarter, in Vicolo degli ombrellari, a small lane near Borgo Pio, were the shops of the Roman umbrella makers, gathered there because of the bad smell coming from the oiled silk.

Loan of tools and implements to carpenters, cabinet makers, show-makers, printers, book-binders and other mechanics on the same basis as the on which the loans of sewing-machines to tailors and umbrella makers had hitherto conducted.

So far, Heineken USA, White Plains Hospital Center and Zipjack, an Elmsford-based umbrella maker, have agreed to provide $3,000 cash grants to employees for down payments; seven other companies will offer mortgage education and credit counseling.

Mr. Center, 81, has been an umbrella maker and repairman for most of his life after learning the trade from his father, a Russian immigrant who was an apprentice to an umbrella maker before he arrived in this country.

Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith was born 17 March 1918 in East Sheen, the second child and only daughter of shopkeeper Frederick Charles Hornsby-Smith, a saddle dealer and master umbrella maker, and his wife, Ellen (née Minter).

They would now and then, to be sure, get a little warm in argument; but their disputes were always adjusted by reference to a worthy old umbrella maker in a double chin, who, never exactly comprehending the subject, managed somehow or other to decide in favor of both parties.