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.
Textiles, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Crewel Embroidery of Kashmir
Miscellaneous
Hill Crafts of Darjeeling, West Bengal
Wool, Felt
Dhurrie/ Floor Covering Weaving of Odisha
Wool, Felt
Galeecha / Wool Carpets of Punjab
Theatre, Performance Crafts
Phulam Japi/Hats of Assam
Hand-Block Printing
Wooden Block Making for Hand Printing in Pethapur, GujaratWax
Cire- Perdue / Lost Wax Metal Casting - Houshold Items and Utensils of NepalTribal Crafts
Cane and Bamboo of SikkimEmbroidery
Ahir Embroidery of GujaratWax
Batik of Shanti Niketan, West BengalCane, Bamboo
Vaas Kaam/Cane and Bamboo of GujaratGames, Toys, Dolls, Kites, Sports
Rod Puppetry of West BengalMetal
Metal Crafts of PakistanCrochet, Lace, Braiding, Knitting
Bamboo and Cane Crafts of Sri LankaWood
Craft in Architecture: Wood Carving of Nepal
