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countries, such as Sulu, Celebes, Java and Sumatra. 
Among the seemingly native weapons is the short 
dagger which is called a “ pepper-crusher.” 
Damascening is usually confined to the blades of 
creeses, though spears and other weapons have it 
occasionally. 
Lace making. The industry of making pillow-lace is 
still carried on at Malacca, where the 
Malays probably learnt it from the Protuguese. Only 
small lace edgings, generally coloured, are now made 
and it is said that the lace products are very 
degenerate in comparison with those of former days 
when from fifty to a hundred bobbins or more were 
used instead of from nine to nineteen, as now. 
Wood- Wood-carving again is a dying industry, 
carving. unfortunately, though here and there 
craftsmen can be found who still turn 
out creditable work. 
In Negri Sembilan, in the old days, Malays of im- 
portance used to have thefir houses elaborately carved, 
but this is a thing of the past, though I have seen one 
beautifully carved modern house near Kuala Pilah. 
Apart from the adornment of houses, the chief articles 
which were, or are, carved are clothes-racks used at 
marriages, straining-spoons, cake-moulds, boxes for 
storing valuable clothes or jewellery, coconut-graters, 
the hilts of weapons, and a few other small articles. 
Trengganu still turns' out beautifully carved moulds 
for small cakes, these being often in the forms of 
animals, representations of which are somewhat rare 
among the Malays. In Trengganu the finding of them 
is due to Siamese influence or to primitive laxity in 
the observance of Mohammedan law, probably to both. 
