The story of Abaca : Manila hemp's transformation from textile to marine cordage and specialty paper / Elizabeth Potter Sievert.
Material type: TextPublication details: Quezon City, Phils. : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2009.Description: 310 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9789715505840
- Fil HD 9156 S19 2009
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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 --
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