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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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Kutty padi kolam Small padi kolangal

Small easy padi kolam Relatively small kolam become awesome with addition of so many motifs, fractals, dots make it appear grand.

Try for any day of Dussehra or for Vijaya Dasami , this design may symbolically represent victory also.  

A simple and cute padi kolam I drew for Varalakshmi Vratham 2020.  If you need to know the steps for this design, go to this video link to watch it on YouTube

Many of my rangoli designs have influence of free hand patterns.  After all I learnt from my mother who was an expert in without chukki rangoli designs.  

She drew hundreds of muggulu designs on the mud floor as her canvas.

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Simple small padi kolam 
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Padi kolam with lotus patterns makes it suitable to be drawn as a Friday rangoli because   Lotus is associated with Goddess Lakshmi 

Cute padi kolam

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One more simple and small design with lotus patterns, again the lotus patterns make it suitable for Vellikizhamai or Navratri Vellikizhamai kolam 
Simple padi kolam for Tuesday

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The image above, an idea how to get a simple yet grand padi kolam for Tuesday ( Sevvaikizhami padi kolam . It is quite simple only getting acceptable level of symmetry comes with practice.  For those who would like to learn dot grids can be used to draw this type of kolam

Beautiful padi kolam for Vijayadasami

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Like freehand kolam this variety can also be expanded infinitely with combinations of lines and patterns. There is no starting problem:) because invariably we start with a square made from 2 or 4 lines. 

This traditional design is one of the most popular types on my social media accounts.  I shared quite a few big or intricate designs.  Like other categories, followers wanted to draw padi kolangal also at the entrance and a few requested me for smaller kolams. 

The result is there to see in the images I have shared in this post.  I remember sharing more ideas and this is just a sample for practitioners to get an idea as to how to go about it. 

The trick in this category is to get straight lines, vertical, horizontal, curve lines that are as far as possible, parallel to one another.  Once we achieve this, we should focus on drawing thin lines.  More than other varieties of kolam this one looks more beautiful with thinner lines.  

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