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

Everything was scrupulously clean, but bespoke poverty, from the inadequate furniture of the sala to the patches and darns on the old wife’s stiffly starched skirt of abaca.

From A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route by Russel, Florence Kimball