abaca

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From a helicopter, “we saw the devastation of coconuts, abaca and the forests. There are lots of houses without roofs,” Lorenzana said by text message.

From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2016

The artist Randy Brozen will lead the workshop, showing young artists how to make paper from the fibers of cotton and abaca, a type of banana tree that grows in the Philippines.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2014

A little further on, we pass an older man in a Diesel T-shirt, shredding abaca bark to make twine.

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012

Manila hemp comes from abaca, a plant much like the one bananas grow on.

From Time Magazine Archive

They cultivate abaca, and from the filament of this plant their women weave the tissues called dagmays, which they polish by rubbing them with shells till they take a lustre like silk.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.