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Manila folder
A manila folder is a file folder designed to contain documents. Historically produced with the eponymous Manila hemp paper, modern manila folders are typically made from card stock.
A manila folder is a file folder designed to contain documents, often within a filing cabinet. Modern manila folders are typically made from card stock. The manila folder is a folder designed for transporting documents. It is traditionally made of thick, durable manila paper and sized so that full sheets of printer paper can fit inside without folding. As with the manila envelope, it is traditionally buff in color.
The manila envelope, a close relative of the folder, often has a mechanism on the closing flap that allows it to be opened without damaging the envelope so that it can be reused. There are two main methods to achieve this. The first incorporates a metal clasp with two prongs, which are put through a reinforced eyelet in the flap and then bent apart to hold, while the other has a cardboard button secured tightly on the flap and a piece of string fastened on the envelope body (or the reverse arrangement) is wound around it to form a closure. In a more general sense, similar envelopes made of brown, unbleached paper, used for cheapness, are also described as manila envelopes.
Manila folders were first produced with the eponymous Manila hemp paper, made from abacá leaves fibers (Manila hemp). Before the end of the 20th century,[when?] papermakers replaced the abacá fibers with wood pulp, which cost less to source and process. Despite the change in production material, the name stuck and the original buff color remained.
In the 1830s, a cotton and linen rag shortage occurred in the United States. This caused papermakers to seek out additional production materials.
In 1843, papermaker Mark Hollingsworth and his sons John and Lyman obtained a patent "to manufacture paper from manila fibers" of abacá leaves. This family company became Hollingsworth & Vose. The Guggenheim claims that this creation of manila paper was a way "of recycling manila rope, previously used on ships". The resulting paper was strong, water resistant, and flexible.
The paper shortage "only abated in the 1870s, when rag paper was gradually replaced by paper made from wood pulp".
By 1873, the United States Department of Agriculture quoted Thomas H. Dunham, who described Manila paper as "nine-tenths jute" when praising jute production.
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Manila folder
A manila folder is a file folder designed to contain documents. Historically produced with the eponymous Manila hemp paper, modern manila folders are typically made from card stock.
A manila folder is a file folder designed to contain documents, often within a filing cabinet. Modern manila folders are typically made from card stock. The manila folder is a folder designed for transporting documents. It is traditionally made of thick, durable manila paper and sized so that full sheets of printer paper can fit inside without folding. As with the manila envelope, it is traditionally buff in color.
The manila envelope, a close relative of the folder, often has a mechanism on the closing flap that allows it to be opened without damaging the envelope so that it can be reused. There are two main methods to achieve this. The first incorporates a metal clasp with two prongs, which are put through a reinforced eyelet in the flap and then bent apart to hold, while the other has a cardboard button secured tightly on the flap and a piece of string fastened on the envelope body (or the reverse arrangement) is wound around it to form a closure. In a more general sense, similar envelopes made of brown, unbleached paper, used for cheapness, are also described as manila envelopes.
Manila folders were first produced with the eponymous Manila hemp paper, made from abacá leaves fibers (Manila hemp). Before the end of the 20th century,[when?] papermakers replaced the abacá fibers with wood pulp, which cost less to source and process. Despite the change in production material, the name stuck and the original buff color remained.
In the 1830s, a cotton and linen rag shortage occurred in the United States. This caused papermakers to seek out additional production materials.
In 1843, papermaker Mark Hollingsworth and his sons John and Lyman obtained a patent "to manufacture paper from manila fibers" of abacá leaves. This family company became Hollingsworth & Vose. The Guggenheim claims that this creation of manila paper was a way "of recycling manila rope, previously used on ships". The resulting paper was strong, water resistant, and flexible.
The paper shortage "only abated in the 1870s, when rag paper was gradually replaced by paper made from wood pulp".
By 1873, the United States Department of Agriculture quoted Thomas H. Dunham, who described Manila paper as "nine-tenths jute" when praising jute production.
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