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

Miscellaneous

Hill Crafts of Darjeeling

Metal

Brass and Silver Filigree

Craft Revival Trust

Embroidery

Chikan Embroidery of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Nanda, Gulshan

Carving

Betel Nut/Areca Catechu Carving

Craft Revival Trust

Wool, Knits, Felt

Galeecha / Wool Carpets of Punjab

Craft Revival Trust

Micro-history / Art History

God's Little Dancers

Ratnakar, Pooja

Policy

Accounting for Craft in Development:

Jongeward, Carolyn

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Crafts in the Policy Space

Bhasin, Anuradha

Micro-history / Art History

Examining the Aboriginal Art Centre Model

Wood, Sharmila

Micro-history / Art History

Crafting Craft

Bhand, Vishal C.

Micro-history / Art History

Excerpts from 'Ornamentation in Traditional Indian Architecture'

Dhar, Parul Pandya

Safeguarding

From the Ocean of Indian Folk Stories

Majumdar, Minhazz

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.