Bolivia · Fine-Art-Adjacent Workshop Craft
Artesanía en chala; the artist's own named style is "Asina es Tarija" (Tarija dialect for "Así es Tarija," "This is how Tarija is")
A self-invented sculptural technique, developed and copyrighted by Tarija artisan Ruth Mercado since 2002, that builds miniature figures of rural chapaco men and women — depicted farming, making music, tending children — entirely from dried and selectively bleached corn-husk (chala) leaves mounted on jute (yute) backing, created specifically as a tribute to Tarija's rural cultural identity.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Not applicable — a contemporary individual artistic technique, not an inscribed collective intangible heritage practice
A pre-Hispanic natural freeze-drying (lyophilization) technique that transforms bitter potato varieties into a durable, long-storage staple.
Pre-Hispanic-rooted, wood-fired village pottery from Huayculi, a small community five kilometers from Tarata in Cochabamba's Valle Alto, producing hand- and wheel-thrown utilitarian ware (pots, jugs, jars, tableware) alongside decorative…
A palm-leaf hat woven from the leaves of the Saó palm (Trithrinax schizophylla), legally declared the official "Símbolo Cultural Cruceño" (Cultural Symbol of Santa Cruz) by Bolivian departmental law in 2007 and worn as an identity marker…
A sheep-wool weaving tradition from Vallegrande, a highland valley town in Santa Cruz department settled by a historic mixing of Quechua, Aymara, and Guaraní-Chané populations, producing textiles whose designs are described in regional…
A leather hat-making tradition from Tarija's Chaco region, worn as a defining identity marker of the criollo chaqueño cowboy culture.
A vertical-loom cotton weaving tradition of the Isoseño-Guaraní people along the Parapetí River in Santa Cruz department, in which women weave entirely improvised, unrepeated geometric and figurative designs — no two pieces alike — using…
The lifting of irregularly shaped stone blocks (harriak) in Basque rural sport — a tradition that originated in agricultural labor and evolved into the defining Basque athletic spectacle.
The making of fireworks and pyrotechnic devices for the Valencia Fallas festival and other Valencian festivals — the most technically advanced artisan fireworks tradition in Spain.
The bath attendant’s hands-on technique in the Turkish hammam: after the bather sweats on the heated marble platform (göbek taşı), the attendant rinses them from a bowl, scrubs with a coarse kese mitt until dead skin rolls away, then soaps…
Thai bodywork in which practitioners use hands, elbows, knees and feet to work along the sen — lines understood to cross the body — aiming to rebalance body and energy and the four elements.
Preparation and application of lulur, a body scrub of finely ground rice with turmeric and spices (ginger, cinnamon), nuts and sandalwood in some recipes, mixed with water and jasmine oil into a granular paste.
A fashion and craft-preservation collective built specifically around centring the artisans behind traditional Palestinian weaving rather than a single designer's personal brand, founded by Yasmeen Mjalli.