Nowadays stickers for rangoli designs are available. The satisfaction I get when I draw a kolam in the morning listening to devotional songs in the background is bliss.
It is to be experienced and cannot be explained in words.
When I visit my acquaintances, it is painful to see rangoli stickers at the entrance . Stickers should not replace a traditional kolam .
If time and space are constraints, we can draw small and simple designs. You can choose from the thousands of designs available
on this website.
The images above show one of them.
While the black and white kolam in the pic can be drawn for our daily kolam.
It can be filled with colours for festivals like Diwali (Deepavali in Tamil Nadu). The use of spirals in simple rangoli is demonstrated in the design shown above.
If the spiral designs are drawn at a single stretch without any breaks , the rangoli will look even more beautiful. Practice makes one perfect as some wise man said.
The more a skill is practised the better one becomes at it.
Incidentally, this simple design became quite popular as a video too
White kolam for daily use
Add colours for festival decoration. The result - a very beautiful rangoli design
I received interesting feedback on social media. A viewer appreciated my kolam and said, "in the era of spoons and earbuds this traditional rangoli is beautiful" This is not the exact comment, though it is within quotes, but he said it in so many words. I did not know what to say.
Though I started with traditional kolam some of my early followers on YouTube said that they found it difficult to draw these designs and requested me to share some simple
tricks for Diwali rangoli to create a quick and fast pattern. I had to think out of the box to help them overcome their difficulties. I looked around my house and saw few old CDs that I used for my craft ideas. I tried to create a colourful rangoli with old CDs. I was satisfied with the result. I uploaded videos of kolam for Deepavali made with tools like Cds, paper cups, spoons etcetera.
Consequently, I am probably the first or one of the first to give these tips and tricks for rangoli for beginners. Maybe, later many have used various other tools to create
awesome rangoli designs. I use maybe because usually I do not watch rangoli videos on YouTube, Facebook because I feel that it may interfere with my thought process in creativity.
However, I vouch for the traditional method only and hence stopped sharing after Diwali 2015 (If I remember right). It was a pleasant surprise when the videos received more than a million views each on YouTube. Ten years ago, one million views for rangoli videos. Wow! One of the videos went viral on Facebook grossing 15 million views.
Though I am biased towards traditional rangoli methods, I remember "The paths may be different, but the goal is the same" quoted by someone in another context.
If you are searching for easy designs in Hindi like Diwali rangoli banana sikhaiye or Diwali ki rangoli bananae ka tarike you may like this idea or other tricks in this blog
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