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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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Bhogi kolam designs with dots

 Try this big kolam for an important festival like Bhogi.  The dot pattern is 16 dots - 8 rows and then 8 dots 4 rows. An old fashioned kolam but very beautiful.  Using only likes we can get a beautiful rangoli as shown in the picture below.
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The next kolam is a beautiful design .  The dot pattern is 15 to 8.  If we add colours or with just colourful shading , the result will be awesome as seen the photo below

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We can also try this kolam 12 dots - 2 rows, vertical and horizontal.  Then two extra dots ( 8 pairs )
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Or this butterfly kolam with 9 to 1 dots
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Let me add an old kolam to this collection. The dot pattern is 2 rows and 2 columns of 2 pairs of 10 dots as shown !! Confusing :) :)  Please see the pic.

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Bhogi pulli kolam , beautiful traditional rangoli

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                                              Old type muggulu are beautiful in their own way.

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The patterns look like pliers don't they !! 

Many posts in this blog are with one or more intermediate steps ( maximum two , I guess ) to make easy for learning.  However there are many who know many kolam designs with steps but cannot decide what to draw for Bhogi ( previous day before Makar Sankranthi ) . To make it easy for them , I have shared some photos. 
 Also for benefit of those who want to learn,  I have added steps for the last kolam.

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