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 rangoli 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.
It can also be used as a simple rangoli for New Year with colours or as a daily vasal kolam as a white muggu.
The four motifs emanating from the mango leaves designs can be metamorphosed (please excuse the pun) into butterflies just by adding antennae at the top.
We can display as shown in the illustration below also without transforming them into butterflies,
still, it is unique and a simple pulli kolam with dots and colours.
It is suitable as vasal kolam or as a small pulli kolam for Margazhi kolangal, since I have posted this in Margali kolam festival season.
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| 7 pulli kolam with colours simple |
Then this chukki rangoli without colours. Two versions of the same 7 dot wali rangoli, one with vellai kola maavu and the other with orange, violet and green colours. Take your pick (though there are only two!). The white kolam with dots can be used for our daily purpose simple rangoli designs, while the kolam with colours can be drawn for Margazhi or New Year too as suggested above.
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| White kolam rangoli designs |
The pictures below show the steps or Easy step by step pics for this seven dot kolam. The motif drawn at one corner of the square dot grid is demonstrated. Once we draw them at the four corners, what remain are few dots at the centre that can be used to connect these patterns through some simple designs. I have preferred to use mango leaves in this case. Maavilai as we say in Tamil are considered auspicious and used for many festivals including Navaratri, Varalakshmi Nombu. So, we can draw this simple kolam with 7 dots for the festivals and decorate with kaavi too.
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| Kolam poduvathu eppadi step by step |
"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.
I am sharing this white kolam with dots here (remember sharing it already) since it is with 7 by 7 dots and relevant to this post. Maybe you can try this as a 7 by 7 dots rangoli design simple and beautiful.
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| Vellai kolam with kolamaavu |
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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