Furnitures, wall panels, sculptures, bowls and decorative items for gifts are fashioned for today's market demand including boat production.

Pulau Duyung in the East Coast State of Terengganu boasted of incredible craftmanship of not using nails in the art of producing sailing boats and traditional boats. Well known in the international maritime circle as being the best sailing boat makers in the world, their incredible craftmanship and carpentry are exceptional even by European standards.

Traditional wood carving has a special place in the Malay society. The unique attraction of palaces and old houses lies in the decorated carved frames founds on walls, doors and windows. Either in the form of reliefs or cut-out carvings. Using various knives and chisels, the wood is chiseled, whittled, cut, gouged, scraped and carved before being polished with the 'mempelas' leaf. Today, wood craft with new shapes and designs have been introduced with traditional concepts adapted, blended and improved to suit modern needs. Tree barks are used to fashion bags files, shoes, wall decorations, as well as room dividers. Discarded wood are fashioned into bowls and flat dishes. When combined with silvercraft or pewter, they make beautiful collector's items as well as corporate gifts.

In Peninsular Malaysia, aborigines from the Mah Meri and Jat Hut tribes produce carved figurines and masks linked with their religious beliefs. The Kayan, Kenyah, Melanau and Iban tribes of Sarawak in East Malaysia create decorative carvings of both utilitarian and religious objects.

The jungle of Malaysia are blessed with a variety of FOREST-BASED FIBRES such as rattan, bamboo, ribu-ribu, bemban, mengkuang, serdang and pandanus. In the past, mat weaving from mengkuang or pandanus, was a criteria for a maiden to be judged sufficiently accomplished in her village.

Rattan or cane are usually used for furniture, while smaller and more delicate varieties are woven into baskets ranging from waste paper basket to picnic hampers. Bamboo plays an important role in local culture such as the all-purpose boxes, bowls to pencil holders and furniture.

When carefully woven, strips of bamboo, rattan and bemban produce the most attractive weaving found in Sarawak. Bamboo that is cut, lathed, smoothed and shaped to the required design has given rise to bamboo carvings - a handicraft specialty of Sarawak. The ribu-ribu of Sabah or Lygodium are woven from the twines of the creeper fern by the ethnic Rungus people in Kudat. This fibre craft is a Sabah specialty. The stems are woven together with rattan and fashioned into beautiful and fantastic handicraft items such as pill boxes, baskets, fruit bowls, trays, coasters, placemats as well as handbags. Traditionally, the ribu-ribu containers were used for the storage of betel nuts.