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

Games, Toys, Dolls, Kites, Sports

Doll Making in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

Craft Revival Trust

Wax, Batik

Batik on Textiles and Leather

Craft Revival Trust

Textile, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi

Baluchari Saris of West Bengal

Craft Revival Trust

Embroidery

Gabba Embroidery of Jammu

Craft Revival Trust

Metal

Forged Hollow Metal Utensils

Craft Revival Trust

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

A Directional Study Towards Empowerment

Patel, Usha Nehru

Micro-history / Art History

Creating an Identity Through Crafts

Jain, Rishav

Micro-history / Art History

Cloth of Dreams

Sethi, Ritu

Micro-history / Art History

Jogi Folk Art

Arora, Radhika

Micro-history / Art History

Accounting for Craft in Development

Jongeward, Carolyn

Micro-history / Art History

Towards a Renaissance of India’s Crafts

Jaitly, Jaya

Micro-history / Art History

Budget Allocations For Handlooms and Handicrafts

Gautam, Kumar

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.