Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
sisal (
sisal hemp
)
A West Indian plant, Agave sisalana. or A. rigida, whose leaves yield a fiber used in making hard fiber cordage. Some of it is used in rope papers obtained from cordage waste. Also called "sisal hemp." (
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