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If in all exceptional instance a different technique is employed, tile patterns diverge considerably from tile usual ones. This, for example, is the case with the textiles of the lban Dayaks woven by the pilih method, the patterns of which occupy a particular place of their own in Dayak art. The same applies to tile so-called ragidup textiles of tile Toba Bataks, who use the floating weft. Or, their fabrics, made by tie-dyeing of the warp, there is only iin arrow-head motif whereas tile ragidup fabrics are ornamented with the most elaborate geometrical motifs.

The fabrics woven by the process of tie-dyeing of tile warp front the Lesser Sundas to the cast of Sumbawa and the South Molucca Islands are particularly attractive. Each island has retained its individual artistic style, motifs, and dyeing methods. Besides the Sumba textiles already refer-red to, those of Timor, Sawu, Roti and Lomblen must be mentioned.

Wherever silk is used as tile basic substance, either tie-dyeing of tile Silk as warp, the floating weft technique, or a combination of both methods is applied. But this is only the case in those areas where the post-Dong Son period left its mark, such as southern Sumatra, the Padang plateau, and Atjeh (Achin).

Considering that in general the population was economically better off in these parts, it can be readily understood why it was that gold and silver thread3 were worked into the fabrics.

Already in the earliest times objects were decorated with dry fruit, and stories from fruit, which lent themselves to this purpose by reason of their colour and luster; in addition flat polished pieces of various kinds of shell, called nassa discs, were also popular. But as well as ornaments made from natural substances, there was a vogue for beads made from other materials. Glass beads were held in particularly high esteem; they were originally imported from Venice in tile 15th century, and later mainly from Germany.

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