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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
Arani Silk Sari Weaving of Tamil Nadu
Metal
Metal Crafts of Pakistan
Cane, Bamboo
Cane and Bamboo of Bihar
Silver, Gold, Precious Metals
Brass and Silver Filigree of Nepal
Ritual Arts/Crafts
Aranmula Kannadi Metal Mirror of Kerala
Textiles, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Embroidery of KeralaMetal
Forged Hollow Metal Utensils of NepalTheatre, Performance Crafts
Phulam Japi/Hats of AssamTextiles, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Gabba Embroidery of KashmirArts, Painting
Sacred Paintings/ Thangkas and Paubhas of NepalWood
Craft in Architecture: Wood Carving of NepalEmbroidery
Chikan/White-on-White Embroidery of Lucknow, Uttar PradeshTextiles, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi
Baluchari Weaving of West BengalJewellery, Beads, Jewelled Objects
Jewellery and Jewelled Objects of Tamil NaduBone, Horn, Shell, Ivory
Coconut Shellware of Sri LankaCane, Bamboo
Vaas Kaam/Cane and Bamboo of GujaratWood
Wood Turning - Shagzo
