PROCESSING OF ABACA FIBRES IN TEXTILE
· Musa textiles is a source of abaca fibre or Manila abaca plant is indigenous to the Philippine Islands; native islanders were making textiles from its fibres when Magellan visited the islands in 1521 during his circumnavigation of the globe The first authentic account of the use of either abaca or banana fibre in the Philippines is that given by an Englishman Dampler = William