‏ Detail of a sarasa textile, with a red madder ground

Sarasa cloths are trade textiles from southeastern coastal India which were imported from India to Japan in the Edo period and had many trade routes through which it arrived there. Dutch, French and English records use the term "sarasa" often and associate it with cotton cloth with floral designs which are mordant and resist dyed.

With a red madder ground, this sarasa which was probably made for Indonesia contains a repetitive leaf and floral pattern and "tumpal ends."