People make umbrellas out of their wings.

Since the days of Victoria, it has been making geometrically perfect umbrellas wide enough to withstand an English rain.

The six included a Mary Moody, 30, who made umbrellas.

In her teens, she was working odd jobs as a cook and a seamstress, and she would eventually enter the business of making umbrellas.

The giant heart-shaped leaves make impromptu umbrellas in tropical downpours.

Oharu is the daughter of Kyōsai Shimura, a rōnin who now makes his living making umbrellas.

Mr. Center said he had made umbrellas that were intended to turn inside out and one that shot out of a gun.

In Malabar Coast, the palm leaves were used to make traditional umbrellas for agricultural workers and students in rural areas until a few decades ago.

It also makes umbrellas, for $15 and up.

"I don't think they make umbrellas for this kind of rain."