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

Metal Crafts

Craft Revival Trust

Clay, Terracotta

Blue Pottery of Jaipur, Rajasthan

Craft Revival Trust

Miscellaneous

Hill Crafts of Darjeeling

Wood

Craft in Architecture

Craft Revival Trust

Leather

Camel Skin Craft

Craft Revival Trust

Safeguarding

Abhyas in Crafts

Jaitly, Jaya

The World of Sankho Chaudhury

Sethi, Ritu

Micro-history / Art History

Accounting for Craft in Development

Jongeward, Carolyn

Micro-history / Art History

Alternative Entrepreneurship in Thailand

Jongeward, Carolyn

Sustainability/Sustainable Dev.

A Directional Study Towards Empowerment

Patel, Usha Nehru

Micro-history / Art History

A Unique Chamba Rumal on the Gajantaka Theme

Pathak, Anamika

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.