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

Embroidery

Crewel Embroidery of Kashmir

Craft Revival Trust

Cane, Bamboo

Cane & Bamboo of Gujarat

Craft Revival Trust

Jewellery, Beads

Jewellery of Tamil Nadu

Metal

Bidri/Inlay on Metal

Craft Revival Trust

Safeguarding

Step-by-Step Process of Jacquard Weaving

The AIACA

Micro-history / Art History

Canada's Visa Refusal to Indian Artisans

Chatterjee, Ashoke

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

A Designer in Development

Tyabji, Laila

Research

Chamba Rumal

Delhi Crafts Council

Sustainability / Sustainable Dev.

Credit Flow to the Handloom Sector

Kanitkar, Dr. Ajit

Safeguarding

Abhyas in Crafts

Jaitly, Jaya

Micro-history / Art History

Kalamkari

George, Ligi

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.