{"id":208804,"date":"2022-09-30T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208804"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:00:15","slug":"unesco-launches-list-documenting-50-iconic-indian-heritage-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unesco-launches-list-documenting-50-iconic-indian-heritage-textiles\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO launches list documenting 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>UNESCO launches list documenting 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 30th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNESCO has released a list of 50 exclusive and iconic heritage textile crafts of India under the title \u201cHandmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding Traditional Indian Textile\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the textiles listed in the UNESCO document?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UNESCO document lists the histories and legends behind the textiles, describes the complicated and secret processes behind their making, mentions the causes for their dwindling popularity, and provides strategies for their preservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the textiles mentioned are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 From North<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Khes from Panipat, Chamba rumals from Himachal Pradesh, Thigma or wool tie and dye from Ladakh and Awadh Jamdani from Varanasi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 From the south: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ilkal and Lambadi or Banjara embroidery from Karnataka, Sikalnayakanpet\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kalamkari from Thanjavur, Toda embroidery and Sungadi from Tamil Nadu and Himroo weaves from Hyderabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Other states:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Kunbi weaves from Goa, Mashru weaves and Patola from Gujarat, Himroo from\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maharashtra and Garad-Koirial from West Bengal and Bandha tie and dye weaving from Sambalpur in Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance of this document: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This list by UNESCO is significant as one of the major challenges to the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South Asia is the lack of proper inventory and documentation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUNESCO launches list documenting 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles\u201d published in The Hindu on 30th September 2022. What is the News? UNESCO has released a list of 50 exclusive and iconic heritage textile crafts of India under the title \u201cHandmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding Traditional Indian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unesco-launches-list-documenting-50-iconic-indian-heritage-textiles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNESCO launches list documenting 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,1566,11212,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-208804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-pm-quiz","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}