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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.   ...

Sankranthi muggulu for competition

Sankranthi 2022 is around the corner , a grand festival  ( Peddha Panduga according to my mother and grand mother  )The muggu below is a butterfly design using 13 to 1 dot pattern

The first pic is without colours and the second with colours.  What are butterflies and birds without colours !!

Only photos have been added to this blog post.  I presume that someone who is looking for designs for a rangoli competition can decipher easily the method.
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Colourful shading has been done to the white rangoli 
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 I think you can guess that dot pattern of this "Mamidi aaku " muggu

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This is a 11 to 6 dots flower kolam called Parijatham

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White or colourful chukki rangoli , you can choose what you want 
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This is an old and traditional muggu , the dot pattern is 15 dots 1 row, 13 dots - 2 rows , 9 dots - 1 row, 
7 dots - 1 row , 5 dots - 2 rows then 1 dot
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