James Ince and Sons
Read James Ince and Sons's story, in their own words.
Wanted: how your things are made
If you make what you sell, we would like to show it. Send us a link to photographs or film of your workshop, your process, your hands at work, and we will put it on this page, credited to you, with a link back to wherever it lives.
We are not after marketing shots. A phone video of a lathe or a stitching bench tells a visitor more than a styled product photo ever will.
Anything you send stays yours. We host nothing ourselves without asking: we link to your own film and your own pictures, and we will take it down the day you want it down.
Trading as JAMES INCE & SONS (UMBRELLAS) LIMITED, registered at Companies House number 00360425.
What we have checked
Every brand here has to clear one test before it is listed at all: the company is a UK legal entity with real activity here. That is a question about the business, and it is deliberately not the same question as where any individual product is made.
- uk registered entity: Companies House record resolves, status active. Number published by the company at https://www.inceumbrellas.co.uk/contact-us. Source, checked 2026-08-29.
- uk hq: Registered office is a UK address: 34 Wyke Road, London, E3 2XB. This is the registered office, which is not necessarily where the company operates. Source, checked 2026-08-29.
- uk site: Stated by the company: "The company is still based a stone's throw away from our first beginnings in Spitalfields, just around the corner from Liverpool Street Station, London." Source, checked 2026-08-31.
- uk employment: Stated by the company: "Richard prides himself in having worked in the business since a teenager, learning his craft from the skilled artians around him; ensuring these same traditional skills are handed down through the generations and are still being used today to make quality hand crafted James Ince umbrellas." Source, checked 2026-08-31.
- uk control: No majority shareholding traced outside the UK; controlled by Mr Richard James Ince. Source, checked 2026-09-01.
We have only checked company registration so far. Evidence of UK employment or a UK site is the next thing we intend to gather, and until we have it we say so on every product rather than implying it.
What they make
5 products listed. 5 state UK manufacture.
- Folding AOAC Umbrella - Straight Beechwood HandleJames Ince and Sons£69
- Gents City Slim Umbrella with a scorched and polished Maple Italian handle…James Ince and Sons£89
- Ladies City Slim Ince Umbrellas with an Italian Chestnut Handle - Classic…James Ince and Sons£89
- Gents City Slim Ince Umbrella - Whangee handle - Powder BlueJames Ince and Sons£130
- Sustainable Hickory Solid Stick Umbrella 25"James Ince and Sons£295
