Tisser Artisans Trust · Craft mapping initiative

Statewise Craft Books:
A Journey Through Crafts

Craft documentation of India, state by state. Every entry carries the same eight pieces of information in the same place, so that a craft with one surviving family can be compared with one employing four thousand. Nothing here is ranked.

Volumes9
Craft entries428
Districts mapped199
First editionWorking draft
Volume II

Rajasthan

64 crafts · 33 districts · 14 handicraft GIs

Blue pottery, Thewa, Bandhej, Kota Doria and Molela plaques

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Volume VI

Andhra Pradesh

43 crafts · 26 districts · 16 handicraft GIs

Kalamkari, Bobbili veena, Etikoppaka, Ponduru khadi and Kondapalli

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Volume VII

Telangana

50 crafts · 33 districts · 15 handicraft GIs

Pochampally ikat, the telia rumal, Cheriyal scrolls and Nirmal

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Volume VIII

Kerala

43 crafts · 14 districts · 13 handicraft GIs

The Aranmula mirror, Beypore uru, Alleppey coir and kasavu weaving

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Volume IX

Puducherry

27 crafts · 14 communes · 2 handicraft GIs

Villianur terracotta and Thirukkanur papier mâché, in four enclaves

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What each volume contains

A book you can read or print, an interactive craft map, a working register workbook for field staff, and a photo studio that matches photographs to crafts.

Every craft has a photo slot

Each entry currently carries an original line drawing. Add photographs through the photo studio and they replace the drawings automatically, a few at a time.

What the set found

Protection is not the variable. Every craft that recovered had a producer body behind the name or a buyer in front of it. The certificate is the cheap part.