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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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8 pulli 8 varisai kolam 8 dots muggulu

What is kolam - Kolam means beauty , beauty due to symmetry.  The opposite of kolam means not in order, haphazard.   Hence kolam means in order , symmetry etc.  Neli kolam category and symmetry are synonymous.

When you view a nelivu kolam ( one of the many names for this variety of rangoli - called melikala muggulu in Telugu , gantina rangoli in Kannada ) from any direction you will find symmetry.

Let us start this post with  a sikku kolam with 8 pulli first 

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We can draw it for weekdays ( Monday to Thursday , except Friday ).  I do not draw these on Fridays.  There is no specific reason.  
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Next kolam is also a 8 dots sikku kolam , seems easy but can be a bit tricky and demands lots of concentration like almost all kolangal of this type
 
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After sikku kolangal let us try a regular dot kolam with 8 dots 

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Step by step pictures for this pulli vacha kolam - an eight dots rangoli 

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Chukki rangoli with square dot pattern 

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 We all love to draw birds.  The beauty of kolam is that we do not draw them exactly but only a representation.  The way they are presented as birds depends upon our imagination.

 What is more important is that simple designs are sufficient to represent the birds.  As usual add colour to enhance the beauty.  Please use it as a daily kolam or for festivals like New Year, Pongal 

It is ten years since I started to blog on kolam, I have shared lots of kolangal.  In 2012, that is the first few months after commencing to blog, I shared 40 plus colourful muggulu in the post Margazhi kolam collection. 
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 There were colourful designs before and after that too.  Adding colours takes a lot of time.  Imagine how much time I must have taken to colour 40 plus kolam .

  Of course, it was not done in one day.  It was done whenever I had time, the photos were taken and stored and added to the draft post before publishing on one fine day before the commencement of Dhanurmasam.

So, this and many other posts are with white muggulu only.  Please feel free to have a look at my older posts and probably a few newer posts where colour kolam designs are available. This bird muggu can also be made colourful.  What are birds without colours :)

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