What Bucklesbury is known for
Bucklesbury is a London design house whose umbrellas are handmade in England, made by craftsmen the brand describes as continuing London's umbrella-making tradition back to 1805 — the same period the city's oldest surviving umbrella manufacturers trace their own founding to.
Bucklesbury is a London design house whose umbrellas are handmade in England, made by craftsmen the brand describes as continuing London's umbrella-making tradition back to 1805 — the same period the city's oldest surviving umbrella manufacturers trace their own founding to. Its Classic range is built around a beechwood shaft; the London Umbrella, its higher-tier model, is cut from a single piece of chestnut wood for men's versions and maple for women's, rather than an assembled multi-piece stick.
Every umbrella is marketed under Bucklesbury's own "Rain Tested in England" standard and ships in a branded gift box with a cotton dust bag, positioning the line at the gift and luxury-accessory end of English umbrella-making rather than a working trade counter. The company also makes handmade Italian leather bags and England-bound hand-bound journals, running the umbrella line alongside a small stable of English- and Italian-made goods rather than as a single-product workshop.
Operating from Marsh Wall in London's Docklands, Bucklesbury reads as a newer design house explicitly built on the city's older umbrella-making lineage, distinguishing its top model by the solid single-piece wood shaft that its Classic range doesn't share.
Best for — English-made umbrellas with a solid single-piece chestnut or maple shaft
United Kingdom
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