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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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Old rangoli designs for Diwali with steps

Draw in the Puja room for Deepavali or Laxmi Puja
Start with the basic star pattern.  I have added some images for all steps so that it is easy to understand
Draw two parallel lines extending outside as in the picture.

Draw to parallel lines at the top and bottom as shown in the image.Start from the 4th line ( as seen from the  left ) and take above the first line Connect to the line at the bottom of the rangoli. Similarly start from the other end of the fourth line and take above the first line

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Without chukki rangoli using lines 
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Connect to the line at the bottom ( or the last line )
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Similarly follow the steps shown in the images below to connect all the edges taking the lines above or below to get 3 triangles at the top and bottom .
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Pulli illatha kolam through images 
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this chukkala leni muggu may be tricky , hence many images have been added
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Decorate with diyas made from spirals for the festival of lights. More decorations is as per your imagination.  A simple without chukki rangoli.

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