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 W 13. The head or shoulder cloth shows clear European influences, which is unusual for the Aceh region, where animal illustrations and Latin letters were rarely used due to strict Islam. The origin of this mysterious shawl could date back to Aceh's independent period, when the sultanate may have been seeking rapprochement with European powers. Woven brocade fabric with a dark purple, plain-weave silk ground and continuous (lanced) and partial (brocaded) weft patterning. Double-threaded pattern weft made of gilded metal threads (metal lane around thread core) after each ground weft. Weave with selvedges on both sides and hand-finished top and bottom edges with appliquéd crochet lace (approx. 3.5 cm), also made of metallic thread.