{"id":369,"date":"2015-11-15T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/15\/pineapple-fiber-pina-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-15T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:37:00","slug":"pineapple-fiber-pina-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/pineapple-fiber-pina-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple Fiber – Pina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nPina \u2013Fiber of the Philippines<\/div>\n
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\nImagine making a luxurious, diaphanous cloth from a
\npineapple.  The fiber is a leaf fiber
\nfrom the red pineapple.  The long fibers
\ncannot be spun but are hand knotted to form the warp and weft yarns.  The plain weave yardage is produced on
\nupright looms in small workshops.  <\/div>\n
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\nPineapple is an herbaceous perennial, 2 \u00bd to 5 feet in
\nheight with a spread of 3-4 feet.  The
\nplant is native to Brazil and Paraguay. 
\nThe South American Indians spread the plant throughout the rest of South
\nand Central America where Columbus discovered the fruit on the island of
\nGuadeloupe in 1493 and brought it back to Spain.  In the 16th<\/sup> C Spain introduced the plant into the
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\nSheer pina cloth was a perfect ground for intricate embroidery
\ntechniques taught by Spanish nuns. 
\nDuring the late 18thC and early 19thC there was a high demand for  intricate lace-like textiles, however by the
\n1850\u2019s the labor intensive production was too costly.  There was competition from factory- produced goods and the
\ncottage industry faltered. <\/div>\n
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NEEDLECRAFT – the Magazine of Home Arts
Auguat 1930<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nIn the 1990\u2019s there was a renewed interested in this textile
\nby fashion designers working with the government.  Some innovations in manufacture included using native and
\nsynthetic dyes to produce a variety of colors. 
\nCombining the pina fibers with other plant fibers created cloth more
\nsturdy and easier to weave.  Combined
\nwith abaca, another fiber long used in the region, the cloth is called
\n\u201cjusti\u201d.  Combining pina with silk warp
\nthreads produces a cloth called pina-seda.<\/div>\n
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From the Rainbow’s Varied Hue – Textiles of  the southern Philiuppines
Roy W,. Hamilton, Ed.
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, L.A.
1998 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Pina \u2013Fiber of the Philippines Imagine making a luxurious, diaphanous cloth from a pineapple.  The fiber is a leaf fiber from the red pineapple.  The long fibers cannot be spun but are hand knotted to form the warp and weft yarns.  The plain weave yardage is produced on upright looms in small workshops.  Pineapple is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}