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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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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

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Then this chukki rangoli without colours 

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The pictures below show the steps 

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Easy step by step pics for this seven dot kolam
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"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.  

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