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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.   ...

Chukki rangoli easy method

The step-by-step images show how a simple dot rangoli can be made very beautiful by adding patterns in the gaps.  This is one of the main aspects - try to have minimum space, fill with patterns - only thing is that all patterns should match one other - should be congruous 

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small chukki rangoli design 5 by 5 dots 

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white rangoli with dots, through pics 
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Adding some standard or commonly used motifs make a simple kolam look awesome
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