Antique and Vintage Bags
Antique and Vintage Garments
Antique Sample Books and Ledgers
Asa Textiles: Natural Bast Fiber
Boro Garments
Boro Textiles
Buddhist Pilgrim's Accoutrements
Children's Clothing
Kasuri
Katazome
Kesa and Buddhist Textiles
Sakabukuro
Sakiori
Sashiko
Shibori
Tsutsugaki
Various Folk Textiles and Other 
Vintage Zabuton
Zanshi: Leftover Thread Cloth

Asa Textiles: Natural Bast Fiber

Asa is the general term used for bast fiber cloth woven from plants such as ramie, hemp, linden, wisteria, nettle, kudzu, etc. Asa is akin to linen.  We offer mainly hemp and ramie examples--often hand plied and hand woven--on this site as they were the most common asa fibers woven in Japan.

A Rustic and Beautiful Boro Asakaya: Mended Hemp Mosquito Netting

ca. early to mid twentieth century
70" x 38", 178 cm x 96.5 cm

This gorgeous three panel... (more)



A Rustic, Undyed Length of Boro Hemp Cloth: Patched

ca. early twentieth century
61" x 13 1/4", 155 cm x 33.5 cm

This is a length of well-used and... (more)



A Long Spiral Constructed Hemp "Horn" Bag: Tsunobukuro with Kanji

ca. early twentieth century
43 1/2" x 14", 110.5 cm x 35.5 cm

Tsunobukuro--or "horn bags"... (more)



A Gorgeous Boro Asakaya: Wonderfully Patched Coarsely Woven Hemp

ca. early to mid twentieth century
70" x 37", 178 cm x 94 cm

This gorgeous, boro... (more)



A Very Rustic, Thickly Woven Kasuri Asa Kimono: Sashiko Stitched Shoulder Reinforcement

ca. late nineteenth, early twentieth century
42" x 46", 107 cm x 117 cm

This is gorgeous,... (more)



An Asa Edo Komon Kimono, Unlined

ca. 1860
60" x 47", 152.5 cm x 119.5 cm

This is an unlined kimono made of a very finely plied... (more)



A Length of Hemp and Indigo Dyed Cotton with a Wa Sarasa Corner: Kaya

ca. mid twentieth century
84" x 15", 216 cm x 39 cm

This is a length of cotton and hemp... (more)



Unavailable products

These products may be out of stock, or, if they were unique items, have been sold. They are left on the site for reference only.


A Ball of Japanese Hand Plied Hemp Yarn #1

ca. mid to late twentieth century
4" x 6" diameter, 10 cm x 15 cm diamter
approximately 7... (more)



A Beautifully Patched Indigo Dyed Hemp Boro Panel

ca. late nineteenth, early twentieth century
68" x 14", 182 cm x 36 cm
This is a beautifully... (more)



A Beautifully Rustic Two Panel Boro Mosquito Netting: Overdyed Hemp

ca. late nineteenth, early twentieth century
72" x 25", 183 cm x 63.5 cm

This hemp mesh cloth... (more)



A Bundle of Unprocessed Paper Mulberry Fiber: Kozo

contemporary
16" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/2", 40.5 cm x 6.5 cm x 6.5 cm

This is lovely switch of... (more)



A Four Panel, Patched Overdyed Asakaya: Mosquito Netting

ca. early to mid twentieth century
68 " x 52", 173 cm x 132 cm

This asakaya, or mosquito... (more)



A Gorgeous Indigo Dyed Hemp Jacket: Two Plaids

ca. mid-to-late nineteenth century
31 3/4" x 41", 81 cm x 104 cm

A simply beautiful indigo... (more)



A Great Swath of Gradiant Blue Asakaya: Hemp Mosquito Netting

probably mid-to-late 20th century
76" x 94", 193 cm x 239 cm

A gorgeous, large area of hemp... (more)



A Hand Plied Indigo Dyed Hemp Boro Panel: Rural Cloth

ca. early twentieth century
40" x 12", 101.5 cm x 30.5 cm

This is a very rustic length of... (more)



A Large, Patched and Mended Boro Asa Furoshiki: Beautiful Patina and Wear

ca. early twentieth century
66" x 64", 167.5 cm x 162.5 cm

Most definitely this very large,... (more)



A Large, Undyed Asa Kimono: Hemp in an Open Weave

ca. early to mid Twentieth century
49" x 50", 125 cm x 127 cm

A big, wonderful, hemp kimono,... (more)



A Mended Hemp Mesh Rice Washing Fabric: Koji Mushiro

ca. early twentieth century
62" x 34", 157.5 cm x 86.5 cm

What a curious, large piece.  This... (more)



A Pair of Hemp Momhiki: Traditional Work Trousers with Cotton Tie

ca. mid twentieth century
30" x 40", 76 cm x 101.5 cm

Momohiki are a style of trousers worn... (more)



A Small Overdyed Hemp Asakaya Fragment: Boro with Two Patches

ca. late nineteenth, early twentieth century
22" x 12", 66 cm x 30.5 cm

This is a really... (more)




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