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50 iconic Indian textiles
October 8 , 2022
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- Recently, UNESCO released a list of 50 exclusive and iconic heritage textile crafts of the country.
- One of the major challenges to the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South Asia is lack of proper inventory and documentation.
- The publication, which aims to bridge this gap, brings together years of research on the 50 selected textiles.
- Some of the textiles are mentioned in the list are
- Sikalnayakanpet Kalamkari from Tamil Nadu
- Toda embroidery and Sungudi from Tamil Nadu
- Himroo weaves from Hyderabad
- Bandha tie and dye weaving from Sambalpur in Odisha
- Kunbi weaves from Goa
- Mashru weaves and Patola from Gujarat
- Himroo from Maharashtra
- Garad-Korial from West Bengal
- Ilkal and Lambadi or Banjara embroidery from Karnataka
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