Asa Textiles: Natural Bast Fiber
Asa is a general term used to refer to cloth woven from bast fiber 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, as they were the most common asa fibers woven in Japan.
A Length of Beautiful Plaid Bashofu: Precious Banana Fiber Cloth of Okinawa
alate nineteenth, early twentieth century28 1/2" x 10 7/8... (more)
A Length of Rare Okuso Cloth: Rural Woven Hemp Fiber Waste
early twentieth century33" x 12 1/2", 81.5 cm x 32 cm For... (more)
A Bolt of Hemp Mosquito Netting: Rural North Eastern Japan
early twentieth century7 3/4 yards x 12", 7 m x 30.5 cm ... (more)
A Fragment of Precious Bashofu: Prized Banana Fiber Cloth from Okinawa
late nineteenth, early twentieth century19 1/2" x 13", 49... (more)
A Beautiful Length of Precious Bashofu: Banana Fiber Cloth from Okinawa
late nineteenth, early twentieth century21 1/2" x 12 1/2"... (more)