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 object number I 13. Shawl for men from Central Timor. A gift from the bride's side to the groom; also a burial gift. Warp-faced, warp-patterned cotton fabric consisting of two woven panels joined in the centre with decorative stitches of yellow twisted yarn. The plain weave is decorated with warp stripes. Each of the two woven panels is decorated with an approx. 6 cm wide blue/natural white warp-knit patterned centre stripe and three further approx. 2 cm wide warp-knit stripes, which are embedded in a multitude of fine, polychrome warp-knit stripes with integrated fine warp-knit stripes. The ikat warp is double-threaded, the warp stripe warp is single-threaded. Unfinished selvedges at the edges of the fabric, open warp fringes at the fabric edges.