Berlin Peace Festival Scarf 1951

Sale price£2,750.00 GBP

A striking historical textile from the Third World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace, held in Berlin in 1951. This screenprinted cotton scarf captures the optimism and artistic vision of post-war international youth movements, rendered in vibrant colours that remain vivid across the decades.

The piece is professionally framed behind non-reflective UV-protective glass, preserving both the delicate screenprint and the scarf's original cotton weave. A

t 97 × 97 cm, it commands presence as a wall installation—equally powerful as a statement of mid-century political art or as a window into Cold War-era cultural exchange.

A rare document of modernist design applied to social purpose, suitable for collectors of political art, textile history, and twentieth-century graphic design.