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Native dyes are still used to a considerable extent 
for colouring strips of Pandanus leaf when coloured 
mats are to be made, but even here glaring and much 
less permanent aniline colours are in favour, and many 
of the really beautiful mats made in Kelantan are 
damned by their use, 
Malacca Territory is famed for the nested mat 
baskets made there, while the Malay women of Port 
Dickson in Negri Sembilan, are adepts in the manu- 
facture of nested baskets, bags and hats; beautiful mats 
are also produced in the Lipis and Temerloh Districts 
of Pahang. 
The Malacca and Port Dickson nested baskets merit 
more than passing remark. Their shapes are usually 
oblong, square or hexagonal, though sometimes 
triangular. Three to five baskets’, which fit rather 
tightly make a nest; the Malays call their method 
of construction “ crazy plaiting.”* Their material, 
Pandanus , is self-coloured and when fresh, a light, 
pretty and silver greeny-grey. Quaint ornamentations 
of twisted strips of leaf are added to many of the 
baskets. 
The weaving The weaving industry, if it ever 
industry. flourished there, is almost dead on the 
western side of the Peninsula, but 
creditable and often very beautiful work is still turned 
out in Kelantan, Trengganu and on the east coast of 
Pahang. 
On the west coast, in the few places where a little 
weaving is still done, and in Pahang, a fixed, two-heddle 
loom is in use, but in Kelantan and Trengganu a four- 
heddle loom, with which more complicated weaves are- 
