Featured post

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

Step by step images to draw these beautiful traditional rangoli designs 

A beautiful  9 pulli kambi kolam ( in Tamil for twisted rangoli )  through pics 

The 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 rangoli designs.

9-pulli-kambi-kolam-282ac.png

9-pulli-kambi-kolam-282ae.png

This kolam uses 9 dots 3 rows, 7 dots 2 rows and 3 dots one row.  A somewhat tricky kolam , so I have added pictures to show the steps clearly ( I hope !) Except for the centre, a Brahma mudichi type rangoli

kambi-kolam-images-step1-42ac.png
This kolam forms a continuous line after drawing the central square pattern.  This is the characteristic of Brahma mudichi  ( Brahma's knot ) sikku kolam .
kambi-kolam-images-step3-42af.png

kambi-kolam-images-step6-42s.png
The next  kolam uses 9 by 1 dot pattern.  It consists of drawing a pattern four times and they are not connected to each other.  
kambi-kolams-52ab.png
5,7,9 pulli kambi kolam can be used for our daily rangoli designs
kambi-kolams-52ae.png

One more kambi kolam with 9 dots to 1 pattern.  It is a common kolam.  As usual few pictures showing the steps
beautiful-kambi-kolam-19a.png
This is one of the most awesome rangoli designs I have tried.  Hope you will like it too.  Beautifully symmetrical.
beautiful-kambi-kolam-19ad.png

10 pulli kambi kolam 
Step by step pictures for a classical and beautiful kambi kolam - 10 pulli 10 varisai 

10-dots-kambi-kolam-image-1ae.png
A somewhat big sikku kolam that can be drawn for our Pongal rangoli kolam designs
10-dots-kambi-kolam-image-1aj.png
7 to 1 dots kolam
A small and simple design for our daily purpose vasal kolangal 

simple-kambi-kolam-thru-images-1a.png
Very small kolam that can be drawn at the entrance of apartments ( and that are more common in metros )
simple-kambi-kolam-thru-images-1ac.png

Chinna Chinna kambi kolangal poduvadhu eppadi ( à®šின்ன கம்பி கோலம் போடுவது எப்படி )
The kolam below uses a 5 by 5 dot pattern.  The images explain the steps

chinna-chinna-kambi-kolam-1ab.png

chinna-chinna-kambi-kolam-1ac.png
The next kolam with 6 by 6 dots

chinna-chinna-kambi-kolam-1fa.png
Square dot grid , a standard dot pattern is used.  We have non standard dot patterns too.
chinna-chinna-kambi-kolam-1ja.png

 An anju pulli kolam with extra 2 dots at each corner

wonderful-kambi-kolam-192ab.png
Many designs are with individual elements that repeat and this may result in non standard dot grids.
wonderful-kambi-kolam-192ad.png

Another 5 by 5 dots kambi kolam with extra one dot on four sides

A  very small but tricky kolam 
small-kambi-kolam-pics-1ab.png

Next kolam is 9 by 9 dot design

image--of-kambi-kolam-52a.png

image--of-kambi-kolam-52ad.png
You can try these for Margali masam kolangal, Bhogi rangoli kolam or daily sikku kolam.

Comments

swapnaa said…
Loved reading through your notes, they're so thoughtful. And your pictures are perfect. I'm going to try these whenever I find myself wanting to focus but also to keep my mind free of clutter. These are so meditative. Thank you!
Sudha Balaji said…
Thank you so much :) :)