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

Games, Toys, Dolls, Kites, Sports

Rod Puppetry of West Bengal

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Games, Toys, Dolls, Kites, Sports

Ganjifa/Playing Cards of Delhi

Craft Revival Trust

Art, Painting

Sacred Paintings/Thangkas & Paubhas

Craft Revival Trust

Carving

Betel Nut/Areca Catechu Carving

Craft Revival Trust

Hand-Block Printing

Wooden Block Making for Hand Printing in Pethapur, Gujarat

Craft Revival Trust

Micro-history / Art History

Danke-ka-kaam of Udaipur, Rajasthan

Sethi, Ritu

Micro-history / Art History

Examining the Aboriginal Art Centre Model

Wood, Sharmila

Advocacy

Nineteenth Century Textile Technology in India

Uzramma

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Cultural Investing

Jongeward, Carolyn

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Ethical Fashion Show, Paris (9-12 September)

Prajapati, Uma

Museums / Collections

Airline Playing Cards of the World

Gordhandas, Kishor N.

Safeguarding

From the Ocean of Indian Folk Stories

Majumdar, Minhazz

Asia Inch Podcasts/Videos

Innovations

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

Collections, Exhibits and Ephemera

Explore rarely seen collections of objects from across South Asia and the world. 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.