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

Discover groundbreaking and transformative innovations and inventions that have the capacity to transform the artisanal space. Study the reframing of the ways that can reconstruct the way we do things that can translate into a regeneration of a process or a technique.

Collections, Exhibits and Ephemera

Explore rarely seen collections of objects from across the South Asian region and the rest of the world. In addition browse through exhibitions and displays that by their very ephemeral nature are time and space bound.

Journal

The Asia Inch Journal seeks to engage our wide and diverse audience by sparking informed and productive debate on the intangible cultural heritage landscape.

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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

The vocabulary used to describe crafts and textiles is rich, varied, specialized and often unfamiliar. This glossary has been conceived as a guide whose purpose is to provide as introductory survey over this very wide field.

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