To provide a folding umbrella having improved usability and ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer is used for its canopy cloth, which can be folded and unfolded easily.

A folding umbrella having a folding and unfolding arm 5 pivotably attached between a first rib 2a and a sliding tube 4 through which a first shank 1a passes, a parallel link 6 pivotably attached between the folding and unfolding arm 5 and the base end of a second rib 2b and an elastic wire 7 stretched between the tip end of the first rib 2a and the base end of a third rib 2c. The umbrella is kept in a condition where the second rib 2b is folded outwardly against the first rib 2a and the third rib 2c, folded inwardly against the second rib 2b, and it is folded and unfolded in this condition. Its cover cloth 3 is made of ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) composed of 83.5% of polyethylene, 14.0% of vinyl acetate and 2.5% of coloring matter.