The Wuppertal textiles from what is now Indonesia came from Eduard von der Heydt, who gave them to the Städtisches Museum Wuppertal in 1937. The museum bought them from the art dealer Carel van Lier in Amsterdam. They were originally part of the curated collection of the German-Jewish banker Georg Tillmann, who lived in Amsterdam from 1932. Of the original 80 textiles, 68 have survived to this day, including fabrics from the islands of Java, Sumatra, Timor, Borneo and Bali in ikat, songket or batik techniques. Most of the pieces were created in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when what is now Indonesia was under Dutch colonial rule. Former item number I 21. Sarong for women, tied above the bust and held at the waist by a belt. Warp-faced, warp-patterned cotton fabric consisting of two identical woven panels joined in the centre in opposite directions with decorative stitches of natural white twisted yarn. The plain weave is decorated with various warp stripes as well as black and white warp pattern stripes that run horizontally to the fabric. Red and white warp stripes of different widths and narrow blue and white warp pattern stripes are woven into the black background. The edges of the fabric are formed by unfinished selvedges, the open fabric edges are closed with a decorative seam to form a long, tubular sarong shape. There are white embroidered symbols on all four corners, which are worked into the sarong before it is worn.