Asia InCH – Encyclopedia of Intangible Cultural Heritage – Open educational resource on the intangible cultural heritage of the traditional arts, crafts and textiles and their practitioners and transmitters in South Asia

Highlights

Stimulating Deliberation

Nail Painting

Craft Revival Trust

Miscellaneous

Hill Crafts of Darjeeling

Carving

Gem Stone Carving

Craft Revival Trust

Headwear, Headgear

Phulam Japi/Hats of Assam

Craft Revival Trust

Metal

Bidri/Inlay on Metal

Craft Revival Trust

Micro-history / Art History

Examining the Aboriginal Art Centre Model

Wood, Sharmila

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Bringing Arts, Crafts And Culture To School Children

Majumdar, Minhazz

Museums / Collections

Airline Playing Cards of the World

Gordhandas, Kishor N.

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Crafts in the Policy Space

Bhasin, Anuradha

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Credit Flow to the Handloom Sector

Kanitkar, Dr. Ajit

Micro-history / Art History

Danke-ka-kaam of Udaipur, Rajasthan

Sethi, Ritu

Micro-history / Art History

From Kridapatram to Ganjifa

Gupta, Swati

Asia Inch Podcasts/Videos

Innovations

Discover transformative innovations and inventions that reframe and regenerate processes and techniques.

Collections, Exhibits and Ephemera

Explore rarely seen collections of objects. In addition browse through exhibitions and displays that are bound in time and space.

Bibliography

Over 10,000 bibliographic listings on the arts, traditional crafts, design, heritage, culture - intangible and tangible, its practitioners, its history and associated studies.

Glossary

This guide has been conceived as an introductory survey to the rich, varied, specialized and often unfamiliar vocabulary used to describe crafts and textiles.