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

Chikan Embroidery of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Nanda, Gulshan

Constructed garments, Apparel

Dance Costumes of Manipur

Games, Toys, Dolls, Kites, Sports

Ganjifa/Playing Cards of Delhi

Craft Revival Trust

Games, Toys, Dolls, Kites, Sports

Stone Carving of Uttar Pradesh

Textile, Weaving, Spinning, Khadi

Baluchari Saris of West Bengal

Craft Revival Trust

Micro-history / Art History

God's Little Dancers

Ratnakar, Pooja

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Credit Flow to the Handloom Sector

Kanitkar, Dr. Ajit

Micro-history / Art History

Rabindra Behera

Jaitly, Jaya

Reviews

Book Review

Dhamija, Jasleen

Micro-history / Art History

Cloth of Dreams

Sethi, Ritu

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Craft in Connecticut

McComb, Jessie F.

Research

Chamba Rumal

Delhi Crafts Council

Asia Inch Podcasts/Videos

Innovations

Discover groundbreaking transformative innovations and inventions that reframe and regenerate processes and techniques.

Collections, Exhibits and Ephemera

Explore rarely seen collections of objects from across South Asia and the world. In addition browse through exhibitions and displays that are bound in time and space.

Journal

The Asia InCH journal seeks to spark 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

This guide has been conceived as an introductory survey to the rich, varied, specialized and often unfamiliar vocabulary used to describe crafts and textiles.