Custom Printed Umbrellas Ireland - Full Colour Interior Printing for Venues

This page explores how custom printed umbrellas in Ireland can go far beyond traditional exterior branding, with full colour interior printing - opening up a completely new retail and promotional opportunity for venues. By utilising the interior canopy, umbrellas can be transformed into high value souvenirs, limited edition retail items, or practical branded tools. From golf course umbrellas featuring full course maps or signature holes, to cathedral umbrellas showcasing stained glass artwork, and even motor racing or horse racing circuit layouts, the possibilities are extensive.

All of our double canopy promotional umbrellas are engineered specifically for this type of application. As standard, they include a silver coating on the inside of the exterior layer, thus not visible. It’s a specialist blocking agent designed to significantly reduce show through between canopy layers. In addition, iBrolly has now developed an advanced titanium coating, which offers even greater opacity - allowing for lighter exterior canopies with full dye sublimated interior prints without any visible bleed through. This ensures a crisp, high impact finish on both inside and outside, maintaining premium visual quality across every design.

Double Layer Umbrellas with Advanced Blocking Technology

For high impact interior printed umbrellas, controlling show through between canopy layers is critical. All iBrolly double layer umbrellas are manufactured with a specialist silver blocking lining as standard, designed to minimise light transfer and prevent the interior artwork being visible on the outer canopy.

To take this further, we have developed an advanced titanium coating, offering a significantly higher level of opacity. This innovation allows for lighter coloured outer canopies while still achieving a full dye sublimated interior print with sharp detail and no bleed through. The result is a premium finish on both sides of the umbrella, making it ideal for retail environments, museums, golf courses, and branded merchandise ranges where quality visual impact is essential.

Storm Proof Umbrellas

A double layer canopy does not compromise the performance of our bespoke umbrellas - in fact, it enhances it. The additional canopy layer provides extra protection against wind and rain, while also offering shielding from the sun and changing weather conditions, helping you stay dry in all environments. Built with a strong fibreglass rib structure and durable frame, each automatic opening umbrella is engineered for flexibility and resilience, allowing it to absorb gusts without damage. The result is a fully guaranteed wind proof umbrella that combines superior weather protection with long lasting strength and premium branding appeal.

iBrolly Ireland Design Service

With iBrolly Ireland, you can design your own umbrella to create a truly distinctive and lasting impression. However, our experienced team of designers are on hand to help bring your perfect promotional umbrella to life, whether you already have a concept or need creative guidance from the ground up.

We offer a complete, fully managed design service, working with you through as many revisions as needed to ensure every detail is exactly right. From initial concept through to final artwork approval, our goal is simple - deliver an umbrella that perfectly reflects your brand.

Our double layer canopy construction allows you to utilise all eight panels for maximum visual impact, whether you are showcasing a detailed marketing message, brand artwork, or location based design such as maps or venue imagery.

We offer complete flexibility across a wide range of styles, from golf umbrellas and walking umbrellas through to compact and telescopic options. Designs can be produced using full colour print through advanced dye sublimation, delivering sharp, high definition results across the entire canopy. For simpler branding requirements, screen printing is also available, ideal for both logos and clean, cost effective designs.

Monetto Fabric - Dual Sided Printing on a Single Layer Canopy

In addition to double layer construction, iBrolly offers our innovative Monetto fabric, a specialist single layer canopy material designed for dual sided visual impact. This unique fabric features a black-out base on one side, allowing the reverse side to be printed in full high definition colour using dye sublimation, while maintaining strong resistance to show through.

Monetto is primarily used on telescopic and compact umbrellas, where practicality is just as important as visual impact. Using two layers of fabric on a small frame can make the umbrella bulky, heavier, and difficult to close and store, especially when wet. By contrast, Monetto delivers a streamlined, lightweight solution, ensuring the umbrella remains easy to carry, quick to pack away, and comfortable for everyday use.

The outer canopy remains sleek and consistent (typically black), while the interior delivers a vibrant, high definition print, making it ideal for souvenir umbrellas, retail collections, and promotional designs where both usability and premium branding are key.

Sustainable & Recycled Materials

At iBrolly Ireland, sustainability is built into every stage of our umbrella production, offering business clients a responsible solution that does not compromise on quality or design. Our canopies can be manufactured using recycled R-PET fabric, created from post consumer plastic bottles, helping to reduce waste while delivering a high performance material suitable for custom umbrellas that reflects your brand identity and values. Shafts can be made from metal, and handles from recycled laminated wood and bamboo.

Importantly, even when using full colour sublimation printing, there is no compromise on sustainability. The R-PET fabric retains its recycled properties throughout the printing process, meaning your umbrella can be designed to suit your style and visual requirements while still supporting environmental goals.

For most companies, balancing sustainability with strong branding can be a challenge. iBrolly removes that compromise - allowing you to create visually striking umbrellas that appeal to your clients, while reinforcing your commitment to responsible sourcing. Combined with durable construction and a long product lifespan, our umbrellas offer a sustainable, high quality solution designed for long term use.

Venue Highlights & Souvenir Custom Umbrellas

For museums, galleries, and cultural venues, a custom souvenir umbrella offers a premium, practical keepsake designed specifically for retail within museum and venue gift shops. Positioned alongside curated merchandise, these custom umbrellas provide a higher value item that combines everyday function with strong emotional connection.

A beautifully executed interior canopy print transforms the umbrella into a portable gallery. Imagine standing beneath a canopy featuring the Mona Lisa - a subtle yet powerful reminder of a visit to the Louvre Museum. This approach works particularly well in gift shop environments, where visitors, guests, and customers are actively shopping for meaningful souvenirs that reflect their experience, and the perfect way to encourage a secondary or tertiary spend.

These highly personalised umbrellas are carefully suited to premium retail settings, where quality, presentation, and storytelling matter. Through dye sublimation and detailed artwork, architectural features, images, and exhibition highlights can be reproduced with exceptional clarity, creating a product that stands out on display and justifies a higher retail price point.

Typical printed umbrella applications include;

• Signature artworks featured across all eight canopy panels

• Curated highlight collections from exhibitions

• Architectural interiors such as domes, ceilings, or galleries

• Limited edition retail runs tied to exhibitions or anniversaries

• Full detailed colour pictorials of the venue itself

For venues, this delivers the opportunity to introduce a varied range of custom umbrellas, purpose built for gift shop sales – visually striking, commercially strong, and aligned with the overall visitor journey. For customers, it becomes more than a souvenir; it is a long lasting, usable reminder of their visit, designed to be appreciated every time it rains.

Finished with details such as woven labels, perimeter tape, branding, and premium swing tags, each umbrella is ready for immediate retail display, enhancing both perceived value and overall presentation within a venue’s shop.

Promotional Umbrellas Featuring Brand-Related Landscapes

A promotional umbrella featuring a brand related landscape is one of the most powerful ways to connect a product directly to place, heritage, and identity. Rather than simply adding a logo, this approach allows your brand story to fully surround the user, creating a far more immersive and memorable experience.

A strong example of this is work produced for Glendalough Scotch Whiskey, where the interior canopy featured a high definition image of their local loch - visually linking the product to the very source of its water and craftsmanship. Every time the umbrella is opened, the user is quite literally immersed within the brand environment.

The same principle applies across premium and corporate brands. For a luxury accessory house like Montblanc, a striking interior image of Mont Blanc reinforces prestige, heritage, and geographic identity in a subtle but highly effective way. It moves the umbrella beyond simple merchandise into something far more considered and design led.

From a marketing perspective, this style of custom umbrella suits businesses and clients who want to elevate their branding. Landscapes, whether natural, architectural, or industrial – offer depth, atmosphere, and authenticity that flat graphics simply cannot achieve.

Key advantages of this type of promotional umbrella include;

• Emotional connection - linking the product to a real place or origin

• Visual impact - full colour, photographic, high quality print across all eight panels

• Storytelling – reinforcing provenance, craft, or brand heritage

• Premium positioning - ideal for luxury, tourism, and high end corporate use

This approach for branded umbrellas works particularly well for;

• Distilleries, vineyards, and breweries

• Luxury brands and gentlemen’s accessories

• Tourism boards and destination marketing

• Corporate brands with strong geographic roots

For most companies, this represents a significant step up in style, quality, and branding potential, turning a practical item into a standout promotional piece that customers and clients will genuinely want to keep and use.