The story of Abaca : Manila hemp's transformation from textile to marine cordage and specialty paper /
Elizabeth Potter Sievert.
- Quezon City, Phils. : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2009.
- 310 p. ; 23 cm.
Include bibliographic references and index.
CONTENTS --
Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- List of Maps, Illustrations and Tables --
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Abaca Industry -- Abaca - the Plant and Its Fiber -- The Callenge for the Abaca Industry --
Chapter 2: Abaca - The Past -- Pre-Magellan and the Spanish Era -- Abaca as Textile -- Musa Textilis Nee and the Malaspina Expedition -- Abaca as Cordage, the Early Years -- Abaca as an Export Commodity -- Manila Hemp - The Term -- Abaca as Cordage Matures through the 19th Century -- Wartime and the 20th Century Cordage Business -- Abaca and the Central American History -- Abaca and Synthetics as Cordage in Post-War Years to the Present -- Abaca and the Foreign Merchant Houses -- TAG Fibers, Inc., and the Larrauri Family -- Abaca Enters the World of Papermaking -- Abaca as Specialty Machine-Made Paper -- Abaca Processing in the Philippines -- Handmade Abaca Paper --
Chapter 3: Succesful Abaca Plantations -- Philippine Plantations, the Early Days -- Successful 20th Century Bicol Plantations -- Wilma's Story and the End of a Successful Bicol Plantation -- Mindanao, the American and Japanese Plantations -- Ecuadorian Plantations --
Chapter 4: The London Hemp Merchants, Ropemakers and the Manila Hemp Association -- Landauer & Co. - A Founding Member of the MHA -- Wigglesworth & Co. Ltd. -- Hawkins & Tipson, Ltd., Ropemakers -- World War I -- Baling and Shipping -- Defining Manila Hemp -- Fiber Quality and Grading -- Abaca Striping and Grading Standards -- World War II and Its Aftermath -- Manila Hemp Alternatives and the Challenge -- Export Licenses -- First World Abaca Conference, 1956 -- International Conference on Abaca, 1992 -- The Future as Predicted by the MHA -- MHA, 2006 - the Chairman's Perspective --
Chapter 5: The Abaca Industry Today and into the Future -- (Today ) - Abaca Farmer, Mike Puentebello -- Abaca Farmers in the Eastern Visayas -- Traders in Southern Leyte -- Government Responses -- (Into the Future) - A Sustainable Environment Initiative -- Other Industrial Initiatives -- Production Initiatives and the Promise of Education -- Abaca Farmer Cooperatives -- Development of Ancestral and Government Lands for Abaca Cultivation -- Textiles -- (Abaca and Its Potential) - Farmers -- Traders, Grading and Baling Establishments and the Private Sector -- National and Local Government Units and Universities --