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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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Simple kolam designs Varalakshmi Pooja

 For the mantap on which we place the kalasam or face of the Goddess we usually draw auspicious rangolis like Hridaya kamalam or Aishwarya kolam.  

For decoration in front of the mantapam or outside the house we can choose to draw  a simple padi kolam or any other design of our choice except sikku kolam.  Some ideas are given  through images  .

This is a collection of without chukki rangoli designs with an intermediate step to make it clear if there are any doubts.   First one of the simplest kolam created by me for social media.  Colours can be added to make it more beautiful

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Drawing the central design around which patterns can be added according to our convenience.  The secret is drawing the lines at one stretch , joints in lines should be avoided

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               One more simple rangoli with lines that can be used to decorate the space before the Mandap                            
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Next is a dotted kolam - 7 by 4 dots .  Placing small dots inside the design can be done by using very little powder .  Also the role of the thumb is very important in placing dots                              
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The small rangoli with intricate patterns in progress

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A different type of design.  We can add more patterns if we feel that there is lot of space left. I wanted to try something easy and different 
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I remember my mother-in-law narrating the following incident.  The kalash used by her mother-in-law was in a close relative's house.  She pursued with them, went to their house several times and finally brought it to our house. 

 Goddess Lakshmi's Face is etched on it and She is very beautiful and divine. My mother-in-law wanted to start performing Pooja with this kalasam and this was in the early seventies, but she was down with para typhoid. 

 She was determined to perform Pooja with that kalasam on Varalakshmi Pooja day as per the calendar (though we can perform on subsequent Fridays in Sravan month or on a Friday during Navaratri) and so she took treatment from the family doctor (those days there was the concept of family doctor. 

 He or she was almost like a member of the family and came to the house for treating the ill and infirm) became better and started the preparations. 

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