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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.   ...

Kambi kolangal eppadi poduvathu

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Step by step images to draw these beautiful traditional rangoli designs  A beautiful  9 pulli kambi kolam ( in Tamil for twisted rangoli )  through pics  T he dot pattern is 9 dots 5 rows, 5 dots 2 rows then one extra dot on all four sides  Kambi kolam are the best kolam designs for our daily vasal kolam because once we practice we can draw small  and even some relatively big designs quite easily and in very little time.   An important factor to be taken into account since time is a premium for us nowadays.   Most kambi kolam have bilateral symmetry.  i.e they are symmetrical when viewed from two planes. When we travel by road through villages and towns these variety of kolam are ubiquitous. It is in cities that  we should revive this tradition of drawing kolam daily. Call them gantina rangoli , melikala muggulu in Kannada and Telugu respectively, these classical rangoli designs  may rank among the best in the world of...