United States · Textile / Quilting
Gullah/Geechee strip quilt tradition
A distinctive quilting technique using long strips of fabric, believed to reflect the influence of narrow strip-woven cloth traditions from West Africa, historically pieced from repurposed feed sacks and fabric scraps and often carrying personal, family, or historical narrative content within its patterning.
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.
Carved buckeye-wood masks (also made from gourds or hollowed hornet and wasp nests) representing exaggerated, often satirical caricatures of outsiders, worn during the nighttime winter Booger Dance to comedically and protectively confront…
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Hand-stamped and turquoise-set silver jewelry — concha belts, squash blossom necklaces, bracelets, and bolo ties — developed after Diné smiths learned metalworking from Mexican plateros in the mid-19th century.
A traditional form of hand embroidery on women's attire, formally documented as its own distinct craft domain within Bahrain's official UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage inventory, genuinely technically distinct from the archive's…
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