At the beginning of the Edo period (1603-1867), one of the techniques for producing ornamental hairpins from Kyoto known as hanabira-kanzashi made their way to Edo, leading to the creation of a style of ornamental hairpin often worn by women from the mid-Edo period on. Edo tsumami-kanzashi use habutae, a thin type of plainly woven silk cloth that is cut into small squares, folded into layers and pinched with a pair of tweezers, and combined together into shapes resembling seasonal flowers, other types of flora, or animals such as fowl in a process known as tsumami-zaiku. The ornaments continue to be made to this day, those that both preserve traditional stylistic sensibilities while also infusing them with modern design.