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Conference paper (unpublished)

“Endangered Crafts: Documenting Shu Making in Chitral, Northern Pakistan“

This paper is concerned with issues related to the documentation of endangered crafts. It takes as an example an ethnography which aims to understand and record over two years the weaving of shu, a type of woollen cloth characteristic of the region of Chitral in northern Pakistan, for which the...

Iqbal, Adil ; Voigt, Friederike
manufacturing processes, contemporary collecting, shu-making, craft knowledge, National Museums Scotland, field research, industrial museums, Climate change , and Pakistan