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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate . Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star with two inverted triangles.   ...

Tulasi kota mundu muggulu video

  Aishwarya patra rangoli or muggu for Tulsi Vivah decoration

Tulsi Plant is considered to be very auspicious , hence only Pooja room muggulu are drawn before the kota. Drawn in the Puja room and for Tulsi kota it is an auspicious kolam.  It is not drawn at the entrance.
The dot pattern is 7 dots at the centre, 8 dots on either side.  Next we have one row of 7 dots on either side , 6 dots one row each on either side and finally three dots on either side.

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Lakshmi Hrudaya rangoli also for Navaratri Friday decoration
I have added an image with different colours to show how the dots are connected
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 Kubera rangoli also for Dasara or Varamahalakshmi Pooja 
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Both have similar dot patterns.  Start with a dot at the centre.  Then eight arms each with five dots in eight directions.
Hridaya kamal rangoli is drawn connecting the dots in the order 1,4,2,5,3,1
Kubera rangoli is drawn using the following procedure.  Place the dot grid.  Draw five parallel lines of decreasing length outside the dot grid.  Connect these lines with the dots drawn in the eight arms.
Watching the video will give a better idea. The video link is given at the bottom of the post.
Geethala muggulu for Tulsi kota
This is one of the most popular rangoli with lines for Tulsi Maa , Friday Puja room decoration and for functions in our family.  My other used to call it the Hase rangoli.
The picture shows the side view of the rangoli
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Kuber rangoli | Aishwarya Patra rangoli | Lakshmi Hrudya rangoli |  
This video 👉 kubera kolam from my YouTube channel on kolam shows how to draw all three rangoli designs referred to above.