Bilao meaning a flat round shape, circular winnower or tray which normally holds pancit has been a synonymous symbol to Filipino cuisine for quite some time now.

Make them the focal point on any wall in your home. In my Filipino culture, a bilao is a round, woven, sieve-like basket made of bamboo. It's used to winnow rice, helping to remove rice from the chaff, small pebbles or even rice hulls.

Our artifact is a winnowing tray, bilao in Tagalog, from the Abra Province in the northern region of Luzon, in the Philippines. It is a woven fan-shaped basket used for drying grains of rice and sifting them, particularly performed by women.