เงินลายนูน (Ngern Lai Noon)
Repoussé and chasing technique applied to silver sheet to create intricate raised-relief decorative objects, characterized by Lanna-style floral and fauna motifs. Centered on Wualai Road, Chiang Mai. Wat Sri Suphan (Silver Temple) — entirely clad in silver — is the most extraordinary living demonstration, where craftsmen and monks continue working on the temple surface.
Risk level: Endangered · Not Listed
High-fired stoneware produced in the Sukhothai Kingdom (13th-16th century) at over 200 kilns in Si Satchanalai using advanced updraft kiln technology.
Inlaying of a black alloy (niello — silver, copper, lead, and sulfur) into engraved channels on a silver or gold base, followed by filing and polishing to produce high-contrast black-on-silver metalwork.
Making of herbal compresses — chopped fresh or dried plai, turmeric, lemongrass, kaffir lime, tamarind and camphor, sometimes with salt — bundled tightly in cotton or muslin, steamed and pressed and rolled over the body, often as part of…
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.
The Kris (Thai: krit) is the sacred asymmetric dagger of the Malay world — shared across Malaysia, Indonesia (CRAFT-0137), Brunei, and the southern Philippines — and the Deep South of Thailand, where the predominantly Malay-Muslim…
Carving and assembly of smaller (50-80cm), articulated leather shadow puppets for southern Thai Nang Talung shadow theater.
Gujarat Dhokra is the lost-wax casting tradition practiced by the Dhokra Damar tribal community in Kutch and Banaskantha districts of Gujarat — the westernmost expression of the Dhokra tradition already documented in West Bengal…
A pre-Hispanic Purépecha copper-hammering tradition in which red-hot copper is shaped entirely by hand with hammers and anvils into vessels and decorative pieces bearing fret, rhombus, floral, and zoomorphic motifs, nearly extinguished by…
A fine silver jewelry and holloware tradition in a Guerrero mining town whose silver-working knowledge, cultivated by pre-colonial Mesoamerican groups and continued after Spanish colonization began mining there in the 1520s, had largely…
The hand-twisting, plaiting, and soldering of fine silver wire into lace-like filigree jewelry by silversmiths of Omdurman, Sudan's largest city and traditional craft-market center across the Nile from Khartoum.
Mongolian silver saddle hardware (эмээл чимэглэл) is the tradition of producing the repoussé silver panels, silver bridle fittings, and engraved silver buckles that adorn the Mongolian wooden saddle (emeel).
The weaving of fine silver and gold thread and beads into intricate soldered jewelry designs, historically practiced in Tripoli's Old City medina, where craftsmen were originally trained by Jewish master silversmiths and later by Arab…