7 pulli 7 varisai kolam poduvathu eppadi

 I created this kolam , few years back for blog and YouTube, sharing a new set of pictures because it may be difficult to find among the hundreds of or it thousand plus +  kolangal in this blog!!

We can draw beautiful, colourful kolam with 7 by 7 dots.  One example is shown in this blog post - first the completed chukki rangoli with colours. Can also be used as a simple rangoli for New Year with colours or as a daily vasal kolam as a white muggu

Then this chukki rangoli without colours 

The pictures below show the steps 

Easy step by step pics for this seven dot kolam

"What do you do after displaying, do you preserve it somehow."  This is a common question on my channels from viewers in other countries particularly USA and Europe.  Kolam is drawn daily in the morning and hence is an ephemeral art.  We have to erase the previous design to draw a new one.  Yes, it is painful to erase it.  

Maybe that is one of the reasons previous generations drew kolam with rice flour so that is serves as food for birds and small animals.  The kolangal were drawn on the streets or in the open courtyard.   That option is not available in all houses with the advent of the apartments.  We cannot expect birds inside the apartment complexes. 

 With technological advancement what better way that sharing on social media in the form of videos and images.  I am doing that from 2012, and I am pleasantly surprised by the encouragement received from all parts of India and other countries.