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You could handle them if you wore the white cotton gloves provided by the vigilant Sotheby's staff, who hastened over whenever you leaned your nose too near the chiffon or made too broad a gesture toward the embroidery.
Shops take advantage of the tourist traffic to sell the products of other islands, too — embroidery and songket fabrics from Sumatra, primitive art from Irian Jaya, and silver from Sulawesi.
The Shanghai Arts and Crafts Research Institute is housed in a wonderful old French mansion (79 Fenyanglu) and allows visitors to view artisans at work on embroidery, paper cutting, and other crafts.
If you are offered lace or embroidery cheap in the street it was probably made on a machine in the Far East.
To be sure that any needlework item is the genuine article (as opposed to an inferior import or machine-made piece), look for a lead seal with an “M,” the emblem of IBTAM — meaning it’s been certified by the Instituto de Bordado, Tapeçaras e Artesanato da Madeira (Institute of Madeiran Embroidery, Tapestry, and Handicrafts), an official island organization that has a showroom/museum on Rua Visconde de Anadia, 44.