Antique folk garments
Antique Sample Books and Ledgers
Asa Textiles: Hemp and Ramie
Boro textiles
Buddhist Pilgrim's coats
Katagami
Katazome Textiles
Kesa and Other Buddhist Textiles
Sakiori
Sashiko
Shibori
Tsutsugaki
Various Folk Textiles and Other 

Asa Textiles: Hemp and Ramie

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.

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)



An Indigo Dyed Asa Noragi: Striped Cotton Gussets and Kasuri Trim

ca. early to mid Twentieth century
29" x 40 1/2", 74 cm x 103 cm

This is a wonderful folk... (more)



A Cotton and Hemp "Horn Bag": Tsunobukuro with Kanji

ca. early-to-mid Twentieth century
42" x 18 1/2", 106.5 cm x 47 cm

This is a... (more)



A Large Indigo Dyed Asa Furoshiki: Five Panels

ca. early Twentieth century
59 1/2" x 65", 151 cm x 166 cm

This is a large, wonderfully... (more)



An Undyed Asa Kimono: Hemp and a Metal Button

ca. mid Twentieth century
41" x 50", 104 cm x 127 cm

This is kimono of undyed asa... (more)



A Rustic, Katazome Fragment: Thick Asa, Botanical Indigo

ca. late nineteent century
31" x 14 1/4", 79 cm x 36 cm

This is a length of very thickly... (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 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 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 Child's Asa Kimono

ca. mid-Twentieth century
30" x 31", 77" x 78"

A charming child's kimono--entirely hand... (more)



A Small Shina Fu Bag #1: Linden Tree Fiber

ca. mid-to-late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century
7" x 5 1/4", 17.5 cm x 13.5... (more)



An Asakaya in Miniature: A Mosquito Net Maquette

ca. 1900-1930
14" x 7" x 5", 35.5 cm x 18 cm x 12.5 cm

This highly unusual, miniaturized... (more)



An Indigo Dyed Asa Kasuri Boro Kimono: Hemp Cloth

ca. late Nineteenth century
51" x 45", 129 cm x 115 cm

This is a boro, or patched and mended,... (more)



Edo Period 'komon' Asa Kimono, Unlined

ca. 1860
57 1/4" x 46", 145 cm x 117 cm

This is a gorgeously detailed kimono from the final... (more)



An Okuso Maekake: An Apron Woven from Hemp "Debris"

ca. 1920, early Twentieth century
26 1/2" x 29", 67 cm x 74 cm

Okuso is a scarce and very... (more)



A Katazome Dyed Asa Noragi: Akita Shibori Sleeves

ca. early Twentieth century
36" x 43", 92 cm x 109 cm

Seemingly unused, this noragi,... (more)



A Boro Asakaya: Mosquito Netting

ca. early Twentieth century
62" x 25", 157.5 cm x 63.5 cm

This is a very boro asakaya... (more)



A Crepe Ramie Unlined Hanten: Katazome

ca. early Twentieth century
31" x 48", 79 cm x 122 cm

This is an unusual garment. It is made... (more)



A Pair of Hemp or Ramie Tsunobukuro or 'Horn Bags'

ca. 1950
29" x 17 1/2", 74 cm x 44.5 cm; 46" x 16 1/2", 117 cm x 42 cm

Not a matched pair,... (more)



A Patched Length of Asakaya: Overdyed Hemp Mesh

ca. late Nineteenth, early Twentieth century
80" x 13 1/2", 204 cm x 34.5 cm

This is... (more)



A Small Shina Fu Bag #2: Linden Tree Fiber

ca. mid-to-late Nineteenth or early Twentieth century
7" x 5 1/4", 17.5 cm x 13.5... (more)




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