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Huda Mahdi at Romanian Jewelry Week: from the 2024 award to the 7th edition

Huda Mahdi at Romanian Jewelry Week: from the 2024 award to the 7th edition — 1

Romanian Jewelry Week is one of the showcases contemporary jewellery in Romania has found in Bucharest. For Huda Mahdi, the maker behind HUDA'S JEWELRY, it was where her work was seen and awarded. Here we put in order what the site shows about her path, adding nothing that cannot be checked.

Who Huda Mahdi is

Huda Mahdi works between Iraq and Romania. She trained at the Assamblage Contemporary Jewelry School in Bucharest, and her work has travelled from there to Munich, to Ljubljana and back home to Bucharest. Her material is silver wire, twisted, bent and stitched into lace that never repeats, in which she sets natural stones and pearls.

Of her pieces she says, in an interview for Revista Atelierul: "I am proud to say that my pieces are one of a kind, and a design shown once is never repeated. All my work is made from the heart."

What Romanian Jewelry Week is

Romanian Jewelry Week is an annual contemporary jewellery event held in Bucharest. The sixth edition, on 1–5 October 2025, was announced with more than 270 designers from 40 countries. The seventh edition was scheduled for 30 September to 4 October 2026, at the National Library of Romania in Bucharest.

The programme, the guests and the full list of participants are on the event's own website; here we only talk about what concerns Huda.

The path, in order

The timeline on the site is short and exact.

In October 2024, Huda received the Lost in Jewellery Magazine Award at Romanian Jewelry Week 2024 in Bucharest. The photograph of her with the diploma is in the section about her on the home page.

In December 2024, she gave an interview to Revista Atelierul.

In March 2026, her work was at Handwerk & Design, part of the Internationale Handwerksmesse in Munich, with Assamblage School, and at Slovenian Jewelry Week in Ljubljana, where she was a guest designer.

From 30 September to 4 October 2026, she was present at Romanian Jewelry Week 2026, 7th edition, at the National Library of Romania.

The pieces that stood in exhibitions

Every piece on the site carries, where it applies, the label of the show where it was seen. Those marked for Romanian Jewelry Week 2026 include the crescent necklace, the lace pendant, the moon earrings, the dome ring and the green stone ring.

Of those seen in Munich at Handwerk & Design, you will find the cube ring, the three-stone necklace, the green stone pendant, the hand chain and the gold ring. The sculptural ring carries the Slovenian Jewelry Week label.

Why an exhibition matters to a buyer

Author jewellery is not chosen like a shelf product. An exhibition is where a piece is seen in person, beside others, and where someone outside the studio says yes or no to it. For someone who wants a one-of-a-kind piece, the fact that a maker's work was seen and awarded at a specialist event is a sign that what she makes is taken seriously by people who see a lot of jewellery.

That does not replace what you feel looking at the piece. But it is context.

One thing shows across the whole timeline: no entry is about sales or figures, only about places where the pieces were shown and people who saw them. That is how the work goes here. A design shown once is not made a second time, so an exhibition is not a campaign but a moment when a piece finds the right eye. If you were at one of these editions and remember a particular piece, message Huda: it may still be on the site, or it may already have gone.

How to get to a piece

There is no basket. You choose a piece from the collection, message Huda on Instagram, and the price, size and delivery are settled in the conversation. She answers herself. You can read more about what a one-of-a-kind piece means in the article about author jewellery.

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