Binakol refers to the unique handwoven textiles of Abra and Ilocos. The word means "twill," which pertains to the weaving technique used to create the textile. Pastor-Roces (1991) noted, however, that the term binakol may also refer to the shape and appearance of the motif, which she described as being shaped into a sphere. Made by employing two-colored weft yarns that create positive and negative tones of squares and rectangles of varying sizes (Respicio, 2015).

This textile from the collection features the kinkinelleng design, which Vasquez et al. (2020, p. 367) interpreted as the “field acre-like” design. Rice fields are common to the Itneg and Ilocano communities, as rice cultivation is among their primary livelihood. Moreover, like other Abra and Ilocos blankets, this binakol blanket has panels of woven textiles joined by a traditional stylized stitching method called the kawa-kawa (spider) joinery (Respicio, 2015). The same stitching technique is also used to border the blanket.