no. 1631. VOCABULARY OF MALAYSIAN BASKETWORK— MASON. $\ 



Left oblique. — Applied to textiles leaning toward the left hand 

 from below upward. Seen in checker, twill, hexagon, octagon, an I 

 rhomb technic. Also called Sinistral. 



Lengkar banon buoy. — Native name in Simalur of a basket for 

 suspending a water vessel. (Cat. No. 216307, U.S.N.M.) 



Loomless. — Name adopted for textile processes not carried on in 

 looms. It includes awlwork, bark- and bastwork, basketwork, braid- 

 work, featherwork, hoopwork, knitting, knotwork, lacework, leaf- 

 work, matwork, needlework, network, osierwork, quillwork, rattan- 

 work, ropework, spathewoi'k, splitwork, stringwork, and threadwork. 



The primitive hand, or loomless, textiles are at the foundation of 

 artwork in several varieties, for example : Fingerwork, producing 

 basketry and matting; stilettowork, producing embroidery; knot- 

 work, producing netting; bobbinwork, producing pillow lace; crochet- 

 work, producing hook fabrics; needlework, producing sewing, em- 

 broidery, and point lace; needles in sets, producing knitting; shut- 

 tlework leads to weaving on the loomwork series. 



Luting. — The Malaysians lute their carved wooden buckets with 

 gutta when they become cracked. The Jakuns employ also the wax 

 from the honey of the wild bee. 



Mad weave (Anyam gila). — A technic in strips of pandanus leaf 

 worked in pairs, in three directions, so as to present the appearance 

 of rhomb, cubes, and six-pointed stars in different lights. The work 

 begins at the center of the bottom, proceeds outward to the border 

 and upward to the rim, where the strips are turned back and worked 

 under to the place of starting by means of a dull bodkin, called a 

 pricker. Plate XII shows the bottom and the top of the mad weave — 

 the rhomb decussations, the six-pointed stars, the cubic forms, the 

 turning back at the borders for the double weave and figures made by 

 curling are all shown. Some of the Sempang Malay mats appear to 

 be thus woven; the prepared leaf strips are doubled over lengthwise 

 and alternately inclose and go between the corresponding opposite 

 double strip in the weave, instead of going first to one side and then 

 the other — that is, in and out over the opposite strands. 



Manila hemp. — (See Poolay.) 



Mat. — A convenient name for basketwork not made into receptacles. 

 From pandanus and like materials the Malaysian peoples make all 

 sorts of things for household use. A mat acquires a multitude of 

 names from its uses. (Kloss, Andamans and Xicobars, p. Is. | 



Materials — This term includes all the substances that enter into 

 Malaysian basketwork in its most liberal acceptation — mineral, vege- 

 tal, and animal; raw and prepared; native and commercial; root, 

 stem, and leaves; filaments, strips, splits, half stems; "cane pith,"' 

 spathes, and joints. 



