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Q+A6 Parasols: made in Hong Kong?

July 11, 2018 Admin Articles, Manufacturing
Parasol Paper Umbrella Courtesy The Knot Shop

Hugh Farmer was recently on holiday in Burma (in 2013) and visited the town of Pathein (Bassein) where he visited the Shwe Sar Umbrella Workshop which produces exquisite hand-made parasols. He mentioned this to group member Malcolm Morris, who lived in Hong Kong in the 1970s. Malcolm remembers his mother using a parasol which he thinks she bought in the […]

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