Asia Inch Podcasts/Videos
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The Asia InCH Encyclopaedia is a continually evolving, open-source educational and knowledge platform dedicated to material cultural heritage, with a particular focus on South Asia. Conceived as both an authoritative and accessible resource, the encyclopaedia brings together over 1,500 entries on heritage crafts, textiles, and ancestral arts, encompassing practices that are historic, forgotten, endangered, and emergent.
The Asia InCH comprises multiple interlinked components, including documentation of materials and techniques, a glossary of specialised terms, profiles of practitioners, and more than 10,000 bibliographic entries. The platform is supported by an expert network of contributors—scholars, researchers, and craft practitioners—whose insights and field-based research continually expand and enrich its growing corpus.
The encyclopaedia complements the Global InCH Journal of Living Heritage, an associated publication that presents new scholarship, critical analysis, case studies, and commentary on heritage practices, safeguarding frameworks, and cultural policy.
Developed by the Craft Revival Trust, Asia InCH seeks to make rigorous, contextual knowledge on material cultural heritage widely accessible to researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and the wider public.
Wood
Wood Turning - Shagzo
Hand-Block Printing
Wooden Block Making for Hand Printing in Pethapur, Gujarat
Tribal Crafts
Cane and Bamboo of Sikkim
Natural Fiber
Coir Craft of Puri, Odisha
Arts, Painting
Sacred Paintings/ Thangkas and Paubhas of Nepal
Tribal Crafts
Cane and Bamboo of Arunachal PradeshTextiles, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Baluchari Weaving of West BengalTextiles, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Gabba Embroidery of KashmirWool, Felt
Galeecha / Wool Carpets of PunjabMetal
Forged Hollow Metal Utensils of NepalStone
Stone Craft of PakistanStone
Stone Carving of Uttar PradeshCane, Bamboo
Cane and Bamboo of LaosWax
Cire- Perdue / Lost Wax Metal Casting - Houshold Items and Utensils of NepalTextiles, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Crewel Embroidery of KashmirCane, Bamboo
Vaas Kaam/Cane and Bamboo of Gujarat
