United States · Textile / Beadwork
Apsáalooke beadwork tradition
A distinctive Crow beading tradition recognized for its use of overlaid ('spot' or appliqué) stitch combined with bold, large-scale geometric and floral-influenced forms and a characteristic pastel and jewel-tone palette, applied especially densely to horse regalia and women's dresses.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Not Applicable — the United States is not a State Party to the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage; no US technique can be formally ICH-inscribed regardless of significance.
The hand-knotting of circular weighted throw nets used by Gullah Geechee fishers to catch shrimp, fish, and crab in Sea Island tidal creeks, a foundational subsistence craft historically often accompanied by work songs sung in the Gullah…
A West African coiling technique carried across the transatlantic slave trade and adapted in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, originating as bulrush fanner baskets used to winnow threshed rice on plantations and evolving, as rice…
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