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

Metal

Forged Hollow Metal Utensils

Craft Revival Trust

Cane, Bamboo

Cane & Bamboo of Arunachal Pradesh

Craft Revival Trust

Cane, Bamboo

Cane and Bamboo of Haryana

Craft Revival Trust

Embroidery

Chikan Embroidery of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Nanda, Gulshan

Metal

Dhokra Metal Craft of West Bengal

Asia Inch

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Craftsmanship in Education

Ranjan, M P

Micro-history / Art History

Canada's Visa Refusal to Indian Artisans

Chatterjee, Ashoke

Micro-history / Art History

Towards a Renaissance of India’s Crafts

Jaitly, Jaya

Micro-history / Art History

From Kridapatram to Ganjifa

Gupta, Swati

Policy

Accounting for Craft in Development:

Jongeward, Carolyn

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

The Work of the Khatris of Dhamadka Block-Printed and Resist -Dyed Textiles

Edwards, Eiluned

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Aruvacode

Dastakari Haat Samiti

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.