The zenkin was also used as a hem for a screen (a free-standing, single-panel wooden screen), a simple partition which was often used in the rooms of Shinden-zukuri style (architecture representative of a nobleman's residence in the Heian period), and used as a hem for tatami such as ugen-beri (a hem made of silk fabrics colored in one color with sequential layers from light to dark).
寝殿造で多用された簡易間仕切りの衝立てにも縁取りとして軟錦は使用され、また畳の繧繝縁（うげんべり）などの縁取にも使用されている。