The craze for "golden threads" soon spread from Japan to Taiwan, not because the Chinese on Taiwan at the time could afford it but because Taiwan was known as an "orchid treasure-house."
例如純黃色要比黃白混雜價位高；一般的金線在葉片中間，如果能栽培出沿著葉緣生長的金線，自然身價不同。玩賞「線藝品」的潮流很快從日本傳入台灣。