Asanoha (麻の葉, "hemp leaf") is the six-pointed star lattice that has been dyed and printed on Japanese cloth for centuries. Hemp grows tall and straight, so the pattern was a favourite for children's clothes, a wish for healthy growth. Here it is built on a triangle grid with the three lines from each triangle's centre to its corners: every line is the same weight, and every junction, twelve lines at each star centre and three at each leaf tip, meets at a single point.

It comes in two scales. The bold tile holds 7 stars across and reads clearly even small on a screen; the fine tile holds 26 stars across, the dense look of a kimono print. Both repeat with no seam at any size.

Seven colourways: Vermilion (朱, washi-white lines on vermilion, the classic colouring for a baby's first kimono), Indigo (藍, soft blue on deep indigo), Young Bamboo (若竹, green on washi white), Yamabuki Gold (山吹, umber on pale gold), Sakura (桜, rose on blossom pink), Sumi (墨, charcoal on washi white) and Celery, a modern colourway with deep navy lines on celery green.

Each colourway of the bold scale comes as a 2048 px and a 4096 px square PNG tile (sRGB, no transparency), 14 tiles; the fine scale comes as the same 14 tiles in one zip. The commercial licence adds an editable SVG tile for every colourway at both scales (the fine ones in a second zip), with the colours set in one style block so you can recolour them in any vector editor.

Also included: origami paper as vector PDFs for A4 and US Letter, seven pages each, one per colourway at the bold scale. Every page holds one 150 mm (5.9 in) square and two 75 mm (2.95 in) squares, printed past the trim line with crop marks to cut on. The squares are full colour edge to edge, so they use plenty of ink; print at 100 % on thin paper.

At 4096 px a tile prints about 35 cm (13.7 in) across at 300 ppi. Use it as digital paper for scrapbooking and cards, for fabric and gift-wrap designs, stationery and packaging, or as a pattern fill and backdrop.