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times native woven, for it is not unusual to find that 
rainbow scarves from that country have “ lime-flower ” 
borders. Head-veils for women and sarongs are the 
chief articles made in rainbow cloth and many 
specimens are said to be produced in Singapore. 
A word should perhaps be said about the cloths 
woven on the four-heddle looms of Kelantan and 
Trengganu. Some complicated weaves are produced 
on these machines’, though they are subordinate to 
the pattern and colouring of the cloth. 
Nowadays either foreign-spun cotton thread or im- 
ported raw or spun silks are used for making Malay 
cloths, though formerly native cotton and various 
fibres were made into thread. 
Silver work Even in the old days the most skilled 
and jewellery, craftsmen in the working of gold and 
silver, such as were maintained at the 
courts of Malay princes, appear frequently to have 
been Javanese, though the articles which they made 
usually followed native Peninsular taste and not that 
of their own country. Unfortunately the arts of the 
jeweller and the goldsmith are almost lost to the 
Malays of the present day. A few old craftsmen 
linger herq and there in the villages and turn out a 
little work, generally of a very debased type. The 
Malay worker in gold and silver, for the reasons which 
I have given at the beginning of this pamphlet, has 
been unable to meet his Chinese competitor on equal 
terms. Malay princes now buy jewellery and silver- 
ware of semi-European, or European, type in prefer- 
ence to that which follows the ancient styles. 
Various articles were made in silver, the most usual 
being small and larger bowls whose shape is based 
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