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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.   ...

Easy rangoli with dots for Diwali thru images

This very simple rangoli reminds us of a game we used to play during summer holidays .

One person draws a line connecting two dots ,  the other person does the same anywhere on the dot grid.  It continues till all the lines are converted into boxes .

Whoever completed one box wrote his name or initial inside .  After completing the game we used to count to find out who had more boxes and that person won.  

We used to repeat this game in a notebook endlessly.  Those were the days without mobile phones.  

We had our old notebooks called "rough note books " or the incomplete note books that were used for this game.  Using a pen or pencil we used to spend afternoons playing this indoor games till the evening. 

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The dot pattern is 16 dots 2 rows then 14 to 2 on either side.
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The design is created with only straight lines connecting the dots
The outermost dots are connected with step like formation

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The next layer of dots are connected
The centre simple pattern is as shown

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Connect the central pattern to the outer step like design with squares
That leaves 4 dots in 4 places.  This we can connect with any pattern according to our imagination.  I have converted them into spirals with dots decorating the periphery.

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The next image shows how shading technique is done. To save time I have only shaded portions of the rangoli
More colours to enhance the beauty

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If you are looking for 15 chukki rangoli or 15 chukkala muggulu with colours , this simple rangoli may be the one you are looking for. 

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