Handicrafts of Asia is probably a misnomer: Asia is just to big and varied to be covered by one site. It is probably more correct to say Southeast Asia or Indochina as this is where most of these handicrafts have come from. Indochina has a recorded history that goes back more than 2500 years and over that time geographic areas have become renowned for certain types of handicraft. Handicrafts generally arose from age-old village realities and the rites associated with birth, death, and the ...