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

Bone, Horn, Shell, Ivory

Coconut Shellware

Embroidery

Embroidery of Kerala

Stone

Stone Carving of Uttar Pradesh

Wax, Batik

Batik on Textiles and Leather of Bangladesh

Arts, Painting

Sacred Paintings/Thangkas and Paubhas of Nepal

Micro-history, Art History

Cloth of Dreams

Sethi, Ritu

Sustainability, Sustainable Devt.

Credit Flow to the Handloom Sector

Kanitkar, Dr. Ajit

Policy

Canada's Visa Refusal to Indian Artisans

Chatterjee, Ashoke

Photo Essays

A Hundred Charmers in Concert

Desai, Meha

Policy

Budget Allocations For Handlooms and Handicrafts

Gautam, Kumar

Sustainability, Sustainable Devt.

Creating an Identity Through Crafts

Jain, Rishav

Craft, Handloom, Art

Examining the Aboriginal Art Centre Model

Wood, Sharmila

Asia Inch Podcasts/Videos

Innovations

Transformative innovations and inventions that reframe and regenerate techniques.

Collections, Exhibits, Ephemera

Explore rarely seen collections of objects. Browse 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

An introductory survey to the rich, varied, specialized and often unfamiliar vocabulary used to describe crafts and textiles.