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 504 DESCRIPTION OF from Is. to Is. 6d. per yard in the present states of the British market. Coarse fabrics are not in demand, but after a certain fineness is attained, the colours and patterns are of more consequence than the texture, clotlis of approved patterns, often selling fifty per cent, higher than those that happen not to suit the native taste. A small proportion of very fine chintzes only will now and then find a market. Furniture chintzes meet a limited mar- ket. The same selection of bright colours and character of pattern is necessary for them. The chintzes which I have described are used by the natives for vests or coats with the men, and with the women for gownSy( bqju and kabaya.J For the under part of dress, the covering of the loins and lower parts of the body, (sarung,) none of our established manufactures are exactly suitable ; but the natives purchase our white calicoes and cotton cambrics, and jyaint them of their favourite colours and patterns. This is a branch of the trade quite new, but likely to be carried to a con- siderable extent. Manchester madapolams and Glasgow cottons, put up in imitation of Irish slurtingy especially the latter, are articles very suit- able to the Java market. They are used chiefly by the Chinese, whose favourite and national co- lour white is, and have of late years entirely super- seded the Indian and Chinese fabrics formerly con- sumed by them.