Monthly award
Khard Hridaya Professional Design Award
Design a masterpiece carpet.
What it is
One design, chosen each month.
Each month we pick one winning mandala or sacred-pattern design. Winners get named credit on the site and join the masterpiece shortlist.
When a shortlisted design is chosen to be woven as a 2.10 m round hand-knotted mulberry silk masterpiece, its designer is named on the certificate and receives 10% of that carpet's winning auction bid.
How to enter
- Original work only.
- A round composition suited to a 2.10 m round carpet.
- High resolution.
- One entry form.
Examples
Live masterpiece pages
These round carpets are already on the site. An entry should be a round design in this spirit, ready for a 2.10 m carpet.
Rules
Short rules
- The monthly deadline is the last day of each month.
- Judged by Khard Hridaya.
- Winners are announced the following month.
- The designer keeps the copyright, except the right to weave and market that carpet as one edition.
Questions
- When is the deadline?
- The last day of each month.
- Who judges the entries?
- Khard Hridaya.
- When are winners announced?
- The following month.
- Who owns the design?
- You keep the copyright. If your design is chosen to be woven, Khard Hridaya may weave and market that carpet as one edition. You are named on the certificate and receive 10% of that carpet's winning auction bid.
Entry
Send your design
One form. Original work only. A file, a link, or both.