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 25. Cloth assembled by hand from two woven panels with untrimmed selvedges, each with an approx. 66 cm wide, red-ground decorative border made of silk and metal threads at both ends. Yellow-orange and green weft stripes made of silk wefts with launched pattern wefts made of gilded metal threads (metal lane around thread core) frame an approx. 7.5 cm wide, brocaded pattern band. Silk warp, in which 6 black warp threads are followed by two red ones, which run through the black ground of the centre section with fine stripes. The centre section of the cloth is a so-called half-silk fabric due to the black cotton weft. The narrow, also hand-finished hems at the edges of the fabric are located on the upper side of the cloth.