| The abaca plant grows from rootstock that produces up to about 25 fleshy, fibreless stalks, forming a circular cluster called a mat, or hill. |
| A leaf fiber and a member of the banana family, abaca makes an extremely strong pulp. |
| These Seattle sisters design placemats and table runners out of abaca fiber. |
| From the skin of the fleshy leafstalks which form the false stem of the abaca plant, strips called lupis are prepared. |
| He created the works by dipping pieces of wire mesh into pulp made of abaca and then painting the frame in lively watercolors. |
| The shade papers are made from silk, banana, Kozo, mulberry, mango and abaca fibres. |
