Featured Parasol: age / origin?

I found this 34" (86cm) parasol in a group of umbrellas at an estate sale. $5.

The wood handle looked interesting, and the bone (defintely bone, not ivory) on the tips of the ribs made me think it's older.

I can't tell the fabric material.... don't think it's silk, but probably not cotton either. Rayon? Nylon?

Any help appreciated.

 

Similar and same cloth ...
https://laurelleaffarm.com/search/p...tta-style-Laurel-Leaf-Farm-item-no-m72032.htm

 

Thanks Roaring. Looks the same fabric and size.

I like the text on that one: "a very light, ladylike piece. Not up to rough handling, but perfect for display".... yikes!

 

I have no idea why anyone would handle a parasol roughly ("manhandle that parasol!"), but fwiw, yours looks sturdier than the one in the link.

 

Too old for nylon which wasn't produced until 1935. Might be rayon or "artificial silk" which was first commercially produced in the US in 1910. Hard to tell from photographs. A sweet, honest little thing.

Debora

 

Now You Need Me...

When the rains come you remember our old closeness, humping along in the wet. You grope the dark where I hang morosely by my crooked neck. You pull off my cover, shake me till my ribs jiggle and a moth flies out.
Your hand reaches under my black skirt and up one leg thin as a cane until I open wide with a rusty squawk hovering above you like a dark and loving raven, said the old umbrella, her night full of holes.

Virginia Hamilton Adair

 

The fabric looks like standard cotton "ticking", but I can't feel it from here.

 

Yes, it does. Here's a sample of antique mattress ticking. Easily recognizable as such. A utilitarian fabric in any era.

Debora

 

Since childhood, I have found it comfortably attractive; both as a pattern, an' in a tactile sense against my skin. I have no recollection, but wouldn't be surprised to learn that at least one early bed was covered with it...an' that I slept directly on it, or used a pillow covered in it. My brother an' I shared a bed until I was 10 or so, he was 18 months younger.
I have the thought that it's 100% cotton...but could it be partially (or all) linen?

 

Ticking is generally cotton, but linen is possible. The hard bits look like peeled wood and bone.

 

Could that wood (sorry) be blackthorn?

 

OMG!

 

Gorse wood?
https://www.coupdoeil-boutique.ch/products/nature-umbrella-with-gorse-wood


https://www.pasottiombrelli.com/en/...-navy-umbrella-with-gorse-wood-handle/pr-2147

 

Well, it was worth a shot...

 

That wood is spot on, @Marote.

And I think it simply has to be that cotton 2mb and Debora found.

I'm actually impressed with the condition of this thing, if it really is antique. Must have spent decades in a dark closet just sitting there.

I'll get a couple more confirmation pics when I get home.