Sentences with phrase «from abaca»

Fibres (manila hemp) stripped from the abaca plant, a relative of the banana tree.

The exhibition was developed through an independent study graduate course at Chicago's Columbia College led by Jessica Cochran, who with co-curators Elizabeth Isakson - Dado, Hannah King, and C.J. Mace, invited more than a dozen artists to imagine new artworks to be made from abaca and cotton paper by graduate students at Columbia.

The environmentally driven concept of the B - Class is clearly evident from its use of high - quality recycled plastics, for instance, or its components made from natural materials, including flax, cotton, coconut fibre, wood veneer and fibres from the abaca banana.

Sinamay is an organic material made from an abaca plant which is similar to a banana plant.

Not exact matches

One fiber, abaca is extracted from the trunk of the plant, a relative of the banana, requiring an arduous process with each stalk cut in strips, scraped to remove the pulp, washed and dried, and its key to the economic viability of farming communities in the Philippines.

Ironically, facing shortages of abaca from Japan - occupied Phillipines during World War II, the U.S. government reversed its stance and promoted the production of hemp once more in 1942.

In the great room of a Dana Point, California, home, which was designed by Bob White of Forest Studio and decorated by M. Elle Design, the chandelier and wing chair upholstered in Belgian linen are by Lucca Studio, and the cocktail table and sofa in a Loro Piana linen are custom made; the walls and fireplace are of marmorino plaster, the painting is by Victor Hugo Zayas, the abaca - fiber rug is from FJ Hakimian, and the flooring is French white oak by Exquisite Surfaces.