The parquet wood pinheads have a soft, natural color, unique to each individual tree's wood, imparting a gentle look. The pins themselves are supple, yet durable, and made in Hiroshima, a city with a 300 year history of needle production. It's ensured that each pin easily and smoothly pierces cloth.
Hakone parquet is a traditional craft used to make boxes and other products by combining the varying colors of different woods to create diverse patterns and designs. Using the delicate parquet technique by Yosegi Koubou Ag, a Hakone-based parquet craftsman, Cohana created a multi-colored flower shaped pinhead. To pass along the technology and disseminate the appeal of this type of work, they participated in lectures and woodworking technology reconstruction projects overseas.