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 9. Shoulder and head scarf worn by women on fast days. Technical description (Petra Czerwinske) Songket fabric with a red, canvas-like silk ground with black warp stripes in the centre. Patterned throughout with lanced and brocaded gold and silver-coloured metal threads (metal lace around the thread core). The double pattern weft is inserted after each ground weft. Side edges are formed by unfinished selvedges, the narrow sides of the fabric are hemmed by hand and trimmed on both sides with an approx. 8 cm wide crocheted border of gold-coloured metallic threads.