Craft Revival Trust is a non-profit organization endeavouring to build an information and knowledge infrastructure for folk arts, crafts and textiles. The activities of the Trust include research and publication; outreach and advocacy; and training workshops.
Craft Revival Trust launched www.craftrevival.org – web wiki in 1999. This is in the form of a constantly expanding Encyclopaedia featuring information on the makers, the techniques, processes and vocabulary of the intangible cultural heritage of South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Laos, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). The encyclopaedia features a listing of museums and organisations dedicated to the conservation and promotion of this sector, case studies of prior experiments in cultural and socio-economic development, a bibliography, and a glossary of terms and other useful links.
The Trust has been set up with the belief that access to knowledge through mapping and documentation is the basis of safeguarding the intangible heritage of crafts, textiles, folk and tribal arts and the bearers of the oral knowledge systems.