The dinapat design on Abra and Ilocos textiles is produced using the brocade weaving method, specifically the continuous supplementary weft technique employed when weaving pinilian textiles. According to Pastor-Roces (1991), pinilian or brocade weaving produces designs with embroidery-like motifs and patterns that float in relief on the cloth’s surface, a characteristic shared with the dinapat. Dinapat textiles are pinilian textiles with the key difference being seen in the structure of the design, wherein the pinilian textiles always have spaces between motifs, while the dinapat have full designs where motifs and patterns are seamless. Furthermore, dinapat has motifs and patterns “on the entire surface” (Pastor-Roces 1991, p. 63), or in other words, that which “occupies the whole blanket” (Salvador-Amores 2019, p. 27).

This dinapat from the collection features traditional motifs. The mirrored zigzag patterns forming continuous diamond shapes are identified as mountain-like motifs, while the motifs with spiral-like borders are identified as hook-like motifs. The blanket’s edges are stitched with pulikos, a strip of cloth as finishing touches.