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

Floor Decorations

Dhurries of Odisha

Craft Revival Trust

Embroidery

Crewel Embroidery of Kashmir

Craft Revival Trust

Wax, Batik

Cire- Perdue / Lost Wax Metal Casting - Houshold Items and Utensils

Craft Revival Trust

Jewellery, Beads

Glass Bead Craft of Arunachal Pradesh

Craft Revival Trust

Wood

Craft in Architecture

Craft Revival Trust

Micro-history / Art History

Alternative Entrepreneurship in Thailand

Jongeward, Carolyn

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Bamboo and Rural Prosperity

Ranjan, M P

Advocacy

Nineteenth Century Textile Technology in India

Uzramma

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Ethical Fashion Show, Paris (9-12 September)

Prajapati, Uma

Safeguarding

Abhyas in Crafts

Jaitly, Jaya

Micro-history / Art History

Creating an Identity Through Crafts

Jain, Rishav

Micro-history / Art History

Cloth of Dreams

Sethi, Ritu

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.