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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.   ...
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Shankam muggulu with dots

One of the most fascinating designs is the conch or shankh designs in rangoli.  We use them for festivals like Sankranti and also for Navratri decoration .

The popular star dot pattern used for shankh rangoli is shown below

How to draw star with dots for rangoli
First place two rows of nine dots

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Then 10,111,12 dots above and below the 9 dots

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Then it is 3,2,1 dots on either side
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How to draw star using dots for rangoli

This pattern is used in a variety of rangoli designs
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The next few images show how the design progresses and also how the shankh pattern is drawn.
Incidentally the shankam can be drawn in many ways.

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Next step for this shanku chukki rangoli 
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shankh rangoli with dots step by step 
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One of the many types of sangu kolam with dots
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Add colours for the design when we draw for our New Year muggu or Sankranthi.

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