The pinilian textile from Abra is one of the most notable woven textiles in the Cordillera region. The Tinguian or Itneg people mainly use pinilian textiles to make blankets called ules or owes. These blankets are made by stitching together two or more woven panels with detailed designs that include anthropomorphic, botanical, celestial, geometric, and zoomorphic motifs. Pastor-Roces (1991) explains that pinilian is the process of turning a weaver's design ideas into two-dimensional patterns on textile. This weaving technique creates embroidery-like patterns that float in relief on the cloth’s surface (Pastor-Roces, 1991). The word "pinilian" comes from "pili," meaning "choose" or "select," and refers to the special weaving technique used.

This textile from the collection was woven using continuous supplementary weft yarn. The technique employs a pili or serpit stick to select specific warp threads, which the thicker weft yarn, connected to a double-horn-edged shuttle known as sikkwan, then interlocks with (Respicio, 2015) to form the desired motif. The motifs woven on the textile represent the stars, or bituwon. However, Cole (1992) illustrated a similar form and identified it as a motif that represents the “weaving on a Spanish bed or chair seat” (p. 431). The panels are joined by stylized stitches called kuko-palay (fingernails and rice stalks) joinery, also known as sinan-ramay (finger-like) joinery. Similar motif is also identified as kawa-kawa (Iloco) or spider (Respicio, 2015) or sinan-akawa (Tinguian) (spider-like) joinery. Moreover, the textile’s borders are also embroidered with yellow threads, resembling the half figure of the kuko (fingernails).