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050			_aHD 9156.M35 _b.Si19 2009
100			_aSievert, Elizabeth Potter. _945181
245		4	_aThe story of abaca : _bManila hemp's transformation from textile to marine cordage and specialty paper / _cElizabeth Potter Sievert.
260			_aQuezon City : _bAteneo de Manila University Press, _cc2009.
300			_axix, 310 p. : _bill., maps _c23 cm.
520			_a'The Story of Abaca' is a human story told through the experiences of farmers, traders, and entrepreneurs who cultivate, market, manufacture, and promote the Philippine abaca industry. Often called Manila hemp, abaca is indigenous to the Philippines and its commercial production has always been centered here. The king of Spain, the book reveals, rejected abaca rigging for his sailing fleet in the 17th century. Had he not been so short-sighted, he might have found the riches he sought in his Asiatic colony, not in spices or gold, but in the strength and durability of the fibers extracted from the abaca plant that grew so abundantly in the archipelago. Some two centuries later, other naval powers, notably the U.S. and the U.K., did discover these extraordinary characteristics for their marine cordage. The author chronicles the subsequent international competition, which continues today not so much for ropes, but for the specialty papers for which abaca is uniquely well suited. How can this fiber be so strong as to hold a ship in its mooring or tea leaves steeping in a teabag? 'The Story of Abaca' takes you to old ropewalks and harbours in London and Salem, to mills of modern pulpers and papermakers, and to research laboratories in the Philippines. (Source: http://www.amazon.com)
650			_aAbaca (Fiber) _zPhilippines. _9106088
650			_aAbaca (Plant) _zPhilippines. _9106089
650			_aAbaca industry _zPhilippines _9106090
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