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Travel Poster Fete des Brodeuses Pont LAbbe Brittany France - Original vintage French regional travel poster promoting the annual folk festival Fete des Brodeuses / Festival of the Embroiderer in the Breton town of Pont l'Abbe. The poster features a stylised graphic representation of a traditional, ornate Breton Bigouden waistcoat and chest panel, showing the intricate folk-art embroidery details of geometric circles, floral motifs, and leaf patterns rendered in a palette of oranges, golden yellows, and red. Created in 1954, the embroiderers' festival is one of the oldest folklore events in France, originating in the election of the ”queen of embroiderers”. This festival has remained authentic and traditional with parades and Breton folk shows, while opening up to the modernity of the groups welcomed during the event. Fair condition, folds, tears, paper losses, creasing, staining, pinholes, large repaired tears. Country of issue: France, designer: Gloanec, size (cm): 79x60, year of printing: 1950s.