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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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Very small pulli kolam - 2 dots rangoli

If some said beautiful rangoli can be drawn with big dot grids only, these two designs may prove them wrong.  Though I repeated many times, I would like to reiterate that in these days finding time for drawing rangoli at the entrance daily in the morning has become a premium.

Naturally we look for small and quick kolams for our daily kolangal.  Add the factor of space, flats offer very little space for drawing kolam. 

Compare it with our house in a small town where we grew up, we had the entire courtyard at our disposal, so sometimes even our daily designs would be as big as Margazhi kolam.

The chikka rangoli galu  below use 2 by 2 dot patterns

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Chikka rangoli with 2 chukki
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Sanna chukki rangoli with 2 dots 
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Small is beautiful 
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Kanchi Mahaperiyava once said the word Jagatguru means Jagat Guru - the world is your teacher.  I learnt a lot of free hand rangoli designs ideas from my mother.  This started at a very young age, and this may be one of the reasons I am creating lots of new kolam even after sharing hundreds or may be a few thousands (I do not keep count, or I have lost count :))

She thought me simple tricks and tips for creating rangoli without dots using various plausible combinations of patterns and motifs.  What were the matching patterns, in her opinion she shared with me.  Those days we had a lot of spare time after dinner.  So, I had to deal with deluge of ideas and information from my mother and elder sisters.  I listened in rapt attention.  It has only helped in my journey on social media.
I learnt some rangolis from my mother-in-law also particularly some Pooja kolangal. 

Big kolam with dots and sikku kolangal , I learnt from my eldest sister.  Having said that I am still learning through experience and experiments. 

For Pongal in 2010 or so, I drew a very big free hand rangoli with colours on the street.  The side was around 6 feet square.  My father-in-law remarked "Why are you straining yourself so much for rangoli" I smiled.  Little did I know that in a few years I would start my blog, video channels on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram.

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