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preferred. Nevertheless really beautiful work is still 
done at Kuala Kangsar in Perak and in a few other 
places. The most remarkable embroidered articles 
still made are the mats and hangings used at 
weddings of the rich. Most lovely square sitting-mats, 
generally of two or three layers, but of s’even when 
manufactured for royalty, are still worked at Sayong. 
Both flat and relief embroidery are to be found on 
these and touches of fine bead-work are often employed 
here and there; beads of kingfisher blue being much 
in favour. The colours of the silks on which the 
embroidery is dojie, and which cover the Pandanus 
mat-work, are selected with good taste and the bead- 
work is so skilfully combined with the gold-thread 
embroidery that it does not give a vulgar effect. 
In the hangings used at weddings small silver discs 
with flower-like embossing and a fringe of silver “ bo- 
leaf ” pendants are often incorporated with the 
embroidery. 
While the flat type of embroidery is often worked in 
coloured silks and sometimes in “silver” or “gold” 
thread, relief embroidery is almost always in the two 
last-named materials. In the case of both types of 
embroidery gold and silver thread is not sewn through 
the cloth, but applied and fastened by means of fine 
stitching with silk or cotton. 
Malay women use a four-legged frame when em- 
broidering and, where embroidery in relief is to be 
done, a cut cardboard pattern is tacked to the cloth 
and covered with “ gold ” thread, which is carried back- 
wards and forwards over it on a winder, and 
securely fastened by stiches at the sides. Pipings are 
worked over rounded strips of rattan cane which are 
previously sewn to the cloth. 
