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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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Brahma mudichi kolam Brahma mudi kolam

Margali kolam | Pongal kolangal | Sankranthi muggulu 2020
This is a unique type of chikku kolam .  Here we use a single line that goes around the dot grid and gets connected to where it started and hence the name.  Just by looking at a completed design it may be difficult to decipher the puzzle that it appears and probably one of the reasons why it is called so. 

As is the norm in this blog, I have given few images to show the intermediate steps to make it easy to understand and learn.  I have used a 11 by 1 dot grid.  This kolam can be drawn with 9, 7 dots and bigger dot patterns also.

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Step by step pictures are shown to make easy to follow 

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For your weekday ( Monday to Thrusday ) or weekend kolam ideas

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Thin long lines should be drawn at a single stretch 

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It comes with practice 
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Try for Dhanuramasam rangoli for one of the 30 days 

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You may also use for sikku kolam with 11 dots or melikala muggulu with 11 dots for Bhogi and Pongal.
What is kolam
Kolam means beauty. To elaborate beauty due to symmetry.  A follower on YouTube gave a very good analogy for this variety of rangoli.  She said just like we have songs in which portions are sung without stopping to breathe these kolangal are drawn without removing the hand (ignoring the times the hand is removed to replenish the kola podi )while drawing the kolam (this is a transliteration from the comment in Tamil).  

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