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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

30+ rangoli kolam simple designs  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 w...
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Karthigai Deepam rangoli kolam designs

A small n simple free hand rangoli for Karthigai Deepam festival decoration.  For a change a kolam  without dots and with colours too.  Of course, deepam or lamp is the theme. What Diwali is for many parts of India,  Karthigai Deepam is for Tamil Nadu.  It is also a festival of lights.

 Two days or rather evenings are celebrated.  First day is Bharani Deepam and the next day is Karthigai Deepam.  The tradition of lighting lamps throughout the month is also followed in some families.

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Small rangoli without chukki (Rangoli sans dots) in a few steps 

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I added this simple rangoli with deepam design.  The dot grid used is six to one dot

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Rangoli tip:  Dots can be used for decorating kolams , the smaller they are the more beautiful the kolam is.

The next kolam is a bigger version the previous pattern shown above.  I have used the same design on all four sides with a space at the centre that can be filled with patterns of our choice. 

 Such kolangal are called kulam kolam (meaning pond kolam - because they resemble a temple pond that has water at the centre with steps leading to it on all four sides)

Coming to the picture below, I have used straight lines with sharp edges instead of the curved edges shown in the previous pic to make it easier to draw. 

We can have sharp edges or curved edges.  It is our choice.  I have drawn spirals on the four corners.  We can replace them with lamps when we draw for this festival. 

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Filling with colour kola podi is not an option for this type of design.  We can use them for central space and the dots surrounding the spirals.

There were many options when I started blogging including recipes, crafts and these genres were quite popular. I think a famous scientist once said don't judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree meaning we should do what we know and like.

Not that I am not comfortable with cooking and crafts.  I wanted to try something different.  This reminds me of the lines "two roads diverged into the wood; I took the one less travelled and that has made all the difference (I thank my husband for these lines he quoted from a famous poem).

So, here I am after ten years still doing rangoli videos and images on social media. 

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