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2. Oil-paper umbrella - Wikipedia

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   Umbrella stand at the Sunday market, Chiangmai. Oil-paper umbrella art in the Northern Thailand, or Chiang Mai dates back to around two hundred years. The umbrella scaffold is made from green bamboo sticks, the colors and images are abundant including pictures of scenery, animals, people and flowers.

3. Cocktail umbrella - Wikipedia

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   A small plastic retaining ring is often fashioned against the stem, a toothpick, in order to prevent the umbrella from folding up spontaneously. A sleeve of folded newspaper is located under the collar or base of the cocktail umbrella and is made out of recycled paper from either China, India or Japan. As a result, they indicate their country ...

4. Umbrella stand - Wikipedia

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   Umbrella bag dispenser in front of the entrance. An umbrella bag in use. A more recent variant of the umbrella stand used in modern retailers is the umbrella bag dispenser, which allows the user to insert the umbrella into a disposable waterproof bag when entering a building, and to carry that bag with them so as not to get the floors wet.

5. Chinese paper folding - Wikipedia

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   Chinese paper folding, or zhezhi , is the art of paper folding that originated in medieval China. The work of 20th-century Japanese paper artist Akira Yoshizawa widely popularized the Japanese word origami ; however, in China and other Chinese-speaking areas, the art is referred to by the Chinese name, zhezhi .

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7. Chinese paper cutting - Wikipedia

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   Chinese paper-cutting originated from the practice of worship of both ancestors and gods, a traditional part of Chinese culture dating back roughly two millennia. According to archaeological records, paper-cutting originates from the 6th century, although some believe that its history could be traced back as far as the Warring States period (around 3 BC), long before paper was invented.