Celestial motifs are commonly featured in dinapat blankets. Among the Itneg or Tinguian communities, these celestial objects serve as guides in farming and fishing activities (Respicio, 1994). This blanket features eight-pronged star motifs (bituwon) alternating with eye-like designs (mata-mata)—diamond-shaped forms with central dots.


A dinapat is a pinilian textile, handwoven using a continuous supplementary weft that produces brocade weaves. The designs exhibit reflective symmetry, with both upper and lower, left and right parts of the blanket mirroring each other. According to Salvador-Amores and De Las Peñas (2016), this type of symmetry is a defining characteristic of dinapat textiles, with both its horizontal and vertical axes passing through the center (p. 98).