The sekitai that was a secret treasure of Asuka-jinja Shrine, an auxiliary shrine of Kumano-hayatama-taisha Shrine in the early Muromachi Period, was tied by passing a thread through three holes made diagonally and inconspicuously from the side to the back of the precious stones, but from the middle of the Muromachi Period there was another method of sewing the stones with threads from the top, and this came to be the sole method in the Edo Period.
室町初期の熊野速玉大社摂社であった阿須賀神社神宝の石帯では、石の側面から裏面にむけて斜めに目立たぬようにあけられた穴三つに糸を通して綴じられるが、室町中期頃より石の上から糸でかがりつける方法がみられるようになり、江戸時代にはもっぱらこの方法のみとなる。