White rangoli designs Wednesday kolam

I have said earlier and in subsequent posts also that I do not practice what is called Kizhamai kolam or a kolam representing each day of the week.  So I share the simple and small kolam I draw at the entrance .  This is a collection of exclusively white rangoli designs that are drawn on a Wednesday.  Please note the emphasis ( not drawn for Wednesday but on a Wednesday  implying that I do not practice specific kolam for the different days of a week.

  However for Friday at the entrance I draw a padi kolam or a kolam with or without dots.  For Puja room on Friday , Aishwarya Kolam and Hridaya kamalam are definitely part of Puja room decoration in my house.

The first kolam can be drawn with dots and free hand too.  This is with a dot circular dot grid around a central dot.  The central lines can be seen curved around the dots.  The other motifs are extended from there.
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This is a free hand kolam and can be also drawn with dots.  The kaavi border indicates that it is drawn on a day when a festival celebrated on a Wednesday.  Please see the vasal padi decorated with a border ( Gadapa muggulu my mother used to say ).

This is my standard decoration for the sill at the entrance .  Two sets of lines with neli or curved lines on either side.  A lotus pattern is drawn between them.  Next comes the small rangoli motif at the base of the vasal padi.  Then I start the main kolam.I also draw a kolam with a piece of chalk near the gas stove at night after cleaning the stove and kitchen counter.  We can also draw with rice flour on the kitchen counter but kola podi should be avoided , obviously to avoid it getting mixed with the recipes we prepare.

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This is a beautiful kolam I created when I spend some time for creation of kolam and try some handicrafts at home.  This is quite a simple kolam  drawn only with straight lines outside the dot grid.
This has been shared elsewhere in Rangolisansdots with colours - for festival kolam.

   The dot grid used is 7 by 7 .  The single image I have added is I think  self  explanatory.  However if you still want to have detailed steps or have some doubts please refer the video below from my YouTube channel on rangoli.
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kolam video from my Channel on  kolam 

The steps are to be place the 7 by 7 dot grid.  Then draw the straight lines that are  inclined and connect them.  draw the lines connecting these lines.

Double stroke or double line kolam form part of my ideas for a kolam on any day of a week.  So it happened to be on a Wednesday , I draw a simple and basic double stroke kolam with parallel and inclined lines connected to form a pattern.  So I have shared it here due to the relevance of the post.


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Continuing our discussion on double line rangoli , this free hand rangoli below with double lines is the monochrome version of a colourful  rangoli I have shared in Rangolisansdots. I am not able to give the exact article because of the huge collection of rangoli designs here.

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The next kolam is quite a common design that can be drawn with a 6 by 6 dot pattern or free hand also.  If you are looking for cute and simple kolam for weekday, you can try this also.

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This is a traditional sikku kolam.  We can have bigger dot grids also for the same pattern.  I have used the smallest dot grid for this categoty.  The dot grid is e rows of 5 dots, then 4,3,2,1 on either side.  First we can draw all the parallel  lines and then connect them with the curved lines.  A beautiful and common kolam for Budhan kizhamai
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This is a kolam  I created with 7 by 4 dots.  With just hexagon patterns  created by connecting the dots we can get a simple and easy kolam for the entrance.  It it such a simple kolam that it can be understood without steps.
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The next kolam is also with 7 to 4 dot grid.  Such simple designs are suitable  for daily kolam desings.  Some of the pictures may appear a bit hazy though I have tried to make them as sharp as possible.  It is because the photos have been taken early in the morning with less or insufficient light.

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The next kolam is also very small .  It can be drawn with 5 by 3 dot grid or free hand also.   It is a deepam kolam with diya designs in 6 directions.  Draw a Christmas star like pattern and extend the lines from the outer edges of the star and form the diya patterns.  Seems simple but we can get stuck there !

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Now the next kolam is a classical maavilai or mango leaves kolam , the dot grid is 7 to 4.  Of course a small kolam suitable for a daily kolam.  I have shared a colourful version also.  It is quite common and should be easy to draw so the kolam without steps is the picture below. Here two layers of leaves are drawn , we can draw three layers of leaves with 9 dots.

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One more Wedneday one more small kolam.  This is a birds kolam with just 5 to 3 dots.  While is quite easy because of the small size and simple patterns drawing the birds is only tricky part.  If we can achieve this with some  degree of perfection ( remember we are not computers so we cannot be perfectly perfect !) it will be a very beautiful sight to the eyes.  Here is the picture.  The steps for this rangoli I have shared already in Rangolisansdots.  I do not follow kizhamai kolam as they call kolam for various days of a week like Budhan kolam etc.  So I share what I draw for various days of the week

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The next kolam uses a five by five dot grid ( ner pulli , of course !).  This is quite a common kolam.  What I have done is a variation of this commonly drawn  kolam at the entrance.  We can change the parts of a kolam and add free hand patterns also , so we can have many variations  of the same kolam.
I have used floral petal like designs on the four edges instead  we can have rhombus like  patterns  to match the four parallelogram designs.  The limit is only our imagination  even for such a small kolam.

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While we should have simple rangoli designs for our routine decoration of the entrance , If a festival falls on a Wednesday , we should invariably have a padi kolam with kavi border as this one that was drawn for Ugadi .  There are two schools in padi kolam one which starts with a square base and the other school which starts with two or four curve lines at the centre as shown in the image below.  Lotuses adorn all the edges that are decorated with a line border drawn along the contour.  It is Ugadi or Gudi Padwa so the geru or kavi border .

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If you are looking for chukki rangoli designs for Budhavara please use the rangoli designs with dots in this collection.  There are also some without chukki rangoli in this gallery.  Having said that many small rangoli can be drawn free hand too.

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