Before being used to create various functional items such as blankets and garments, many traditional textiles in the Cordillera are first woven as yardages. Yardages refer to fabrics that are cut directly from the loom beam after weaving. These yardages then serve as the primary materials for producing textile items.

This textile from the collection is a sample woven yardage created using the pinilian technique. The term pinilian is derived from the root word pili, which means "choose" or "select," and it refers to a supplementary weft technique used in textile weaving. Designs created with this technique are made using either continuous or discontinuous supplementary weft yarns (Pastor-Roces, 1991). Woven with continuous supplementary weft yarn, this textile features simple stripes in white and terracotta patterns, along with rows of flower-like geometric designs known as binusilak, which represent herbal flowers.