The United Kingdom is set to ratify the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, opening the way to greater international cooperation on the importance of the country’s knowledge, skills and practices as part of her living heritage.
The urge to gift an enduring piece of Punjab’s legacy, and the lack of it, led to the setting up of Aab Label, a contemporary brand that draws inspiration from the hand-embroidered heritage craft of phulkari. FounderShreya Mehra shares her story.
A one of its kind dataset of jamdani motifs in digital format has been developed by students in Bangladesh in a bid to preserve the centuries old “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.
