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could not produce the puror and crudor oolour^f, Now that aniliiio, in 

 all its varied tints, is obtainable, colour effects, whicli to educated 

 European eyes are excruciating, are produced and much admired by 

 Malays, Chinese and Indians of all nationalities. The Japanese alone, 

 amongst Easterns, appear to be able to deal with these brilliant 

 colours with taste and discretion. 



Besides the above described cloth, a curious mixture of two separate 

 methods of tie-and-dye work is sometimes combined in one a-armeut 

 That is, a piece of cloth is woven with a part of the warp thread 

 treated by the tie and dye method, which is used to produce the so- 

 called "kain limau *," and the remainder of the length is left white. 

 This portion is subsefjuently tied and dyed as above described. If 

 the ground coloui's of the two portions harmonise, the effect is by no 

 means displeasing. There is one sarong in the Perak Museum, which 

 was collected in Tringganu, of this composite cloth ; the ground 

 colours being a rather dull red for the " kain limau " part and a quiet 

 yellow for the " kain pelaugi " division. Another example, said to have 

 been made in Kelantan, had the grounds of two different shades of red. 



There is another species of cloth, produced in Singapore by the 

 same people, which is also called " kain pelangi," though the technique 

 of its manufacture is quite different. The basis is also white silk, 

 which is sti-etched on the frame already described. The pattern is 

 then drawn on it, in various shades of aniline by means of Chinese 

 writing brushes. No staiups or guides are used, the work being 

 entii-ely done by free-hand drawing, without even a preliminary 

 sketch. In one specimen, in the possession of the writer, the colours 

 employed are violet, red, green and yellow. The patterns are mostly 

 conventionalised floral derivatives. 



REPORTS ON CORUNDUM FROM PERAK, 

 FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



By Professor WYNDHAM R. DUNSTAN, m.a., k.r.s., 

 Director, Impb:riai. Institute, South Kexsington., Loxdox, S.W. 



130-35. Imperial Institute Road, London, S.W., 



27th Septemher, 1904. 



OIR,— I have the honour to send herewith a report on specimens 

 of corundum from the Federated Malay States received from Mr. 

 L. Wray. The report also refers to other specimens of the same 

 material received from Mr. Cecil Wray and from Mr. Alma Baker. 



* See " Notes on Dyeing and Weaving as practised at Sitiawan in Pei'ak," 

 by L. Wray* in the " Journal of the Anthropological Institute," vol. 32, Jannary- 

 Jime, 1902. 



