Star rangoli designs for Friday simple

A very trendy natchathiram kolam without dots that has stars around stars

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Star kolam designs can be drawn on Tuesday for Murugan
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Lord Subramanya is Murugan in Tamil Nadu.  Murugu means beautiful .  In any of his temples you will find that He is very handsome.
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Aadi velli special kolam | Best aadi velli kolam 
This combination of stars with lines give a beautiful traditional effect for the Aadi ( called Ashada in Hindi , Marathi ) month  which is famous in Tamil Nadu for beautiful kolams, Pooja for Amman ( Durga ) .  
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Actually the celebrations last for nearly four months in Tiruverkadu  Karumari Amman temple where there are different types of kudam taken to the temple every Sunday during this season
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Star padi kolam images step by step are given here.
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Two line patterns are preferred for decorating padi kolam , particularly if we draw for Karthigai 
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Decorations with lines are shown
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Beauty of padi kolam is enhanced when we draw thin lines , drawing thin lines in kolangal is an art by itself.
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Karthigai Deepam and Diwali have a lot of similarities
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For both festivals we light lamps , a lot of them.
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Two birds are drawn we can convert them into peacocks to make them suitable for Karthigai Deepam festival 
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I have used a star pattern even at the centre.
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Add colours to make it a star padi kolam with colours 
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Star rangoli designs are quite popular in this art and also for Friday .  It is our tradition to draw a padi kolam for Fridays.  So I have started with a basic padi kolam square pattern ( some draw it with curved lines ) .  
For the square I have used 4 lines and for the stars I have used two lines.  Then decorated the star with straight line borders - again two of them to make a total of 4 lines for the stars also. 
Traditionally we use 2,4 or 5 lines ( In our family we use five lines also though some prefer even number of lines ).  Coming to the rangoli ,  The gaps are filled with birds patterns.  The centre of the padi kolam I usually fill with diagonal lines and dots .  For this design I have again used a star pattern at the centre.  Decorate inside or outside with kaavi border.
The next kolam uses stars , lotus and birds , the lotus flower associated with Goddess Laxmi and Friday.  So we can have this as one of our Navratri kolam or Varalakshmi Pooja rangoli designs.

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We can draw this as a star kolam with colour Pooja
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The next star rangoli or nakshatra kolam uses a dot grid .  The steps through  pictures
The dot pattern is 12 dots - 2 rows then 11,10,9 , 8 and 9 again.
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The stars are drawn first ,  using the dot grid.
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I try to show a close up of the rangoli with the hand in many images for two reasons,  one we can get a better idea  and two the position of the fingers holding the rangoli powder is visible for those who may need it.  Also there is one more reason ,  it is easy to show at which step or which direction the rangoli is in process. These traditional kolam are quite awesome , aren't they.
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Star rangoli , small
A very common rangoli that is seen in temples , mutts.  The star patterns appear inter twined .  In Puja room it is our tradtion to draw two or four lines.  The images show the steps as usual , as one can expect in Rangolisansdots where in many posts I have shared the pictures showing the intermediate steps .

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We should underestimate this kolam, small but tricky
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So I have added few photos to show the steps
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Draw two lines if you want to draw in your Pooja.  
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Sashti viratham kolam 
Star design is associated with Lord Muruga ( Subramanya )  hence these designs can be drawn for Sashti or Kanda Sashti vratham.The next series of pictures show a basic star pattern converted into a beautiful kolam , a 7 into 4 dot pattern is used 

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Only lines and rose buds for decoration
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Star at the centre.  Can be tried for simple rangoli for Bhogi or Sankranthi
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If you want nakshatra rangoli designs, nakshatra muggu some of these rangolis can be used.

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