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

Embroidery

Crewel Embroidery of Kashmir

Craft Revival Trust

Cane, Bamboo

Cane and Bamboo of Laos

Craft Revival Trust

Metal

Bidri/Inlay on Metal

Craft Revival Trust

Stone

Stone Carving of Uttar Pradesh

Craft Revival Trust

Art, Painting

Ajanta Paintings of Maharashtra

Craft Revival Trust

Micro-history / Art History

The World of Sankho Chaudhury

Sethi, Ritu

Safeguarding

From the Ocean of Indian Folk Stories

Majumdar, Minhazz

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Cultural Investing

Jongeward, Carolyn

Micro-history / Art History

Canada's Visa Refusal to Indian Artisans

Chatterjee, Ashoke

Micro-history / Art History

Danke-ka-kaam of Udaipur, Rajasthan

Sethi, Ritu

Micro-history / Art History

Mural Painting at Raghurajpur

INTACH

Safeguarding

Step-by-Step Process of Jacquard Weaving

The AIACA

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.