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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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Oodu pulli kolam 7-4 dots rangoli

7 to 4 dots rangoli kolam for daily purpose 

This collection of pulli kolam simple,  one more set of simple kolam designs for your reference. 

I have sharing hundreds of designs to facilitate drawing kolam daily early in the morning.

Every day for many of us drawing kolam is like performing Pooja.  When we bend down to create one for the day sometimes, we may not be able create instantaneously due to other distractions or duties but are not willing to settle for some random design that may occur in our minds. 

Hence, I am sharing lots of designs so as to make creating simple kolam art easy. Most of them are created by me except common kolam.

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Steps for this simple birds kolam with dots 

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The result is a simple and beautiful kolam .  We can also draw it for Navarathri golu , Deepavali or New Year.
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7-4 dots vilakku kolam  for entrance of house

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For those who are looking for deepa chukki rangoli here are the steps for an easy pattern.

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There is a tradition of drawing small rangolis on either side of a bigger design for Bhogi and Pongal.  One of these kolams can be used for the purpose
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This kolam and the next one can be drawn on Fridays at the vasal or for Deepavali and Karthigai Deepam Thiruvizha

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One of the simplest deepam muggulu with chukkalu

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A simple hexagon based daily vasal kolam with 7 to 4 dots

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A white kolam with dots , simple and easy rangoli

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Oodu pulli kolam also known as idukku pulli kolam use the dot pattern that increase by 1 when counted from the top or bottom or decrease by 1 when counted from the centre.  Due to the closely placed dots we can draw more intricate patterns as seen in the first kolam, i.e birds.
The most common are 5-3 dots, 7-4 dot pattern and 9-5 dot grid.  These kolams can be used for our daily purpose kolangal at the entrance.

Kolam tips 
While placing the dots place the central row first, then those above and below to get a reasonably perfect dot grid.  We can also have the nilapadi as reference to place the first row of pulli !!

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