Shirotae were weaved of yufu, a hemp cloth, a silk cloth and a paper, were pasted on tsuitate shoji, a folding screen, tobari and fusuma-shoji, and their colors were all clear and holy 'white' with the intention that the holy precinct was protected against wicked souls as the boundary of a holy place.
衝立障子や屏風、帷そして衾障子には、木綿で織られた白妙や麻・絹そして紙を張ったが、神聖な場所としての結界として、聖域を邪霊から守り防ぐ意味から、清浄で神聖な「白」が張られた。