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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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Rangoli tricks for Diwali - small dots

 Rangoli tips tricks and techniques 

Placing dots is a very important aspect of drawing beautiful rangoli designs.  They should appear like dots ( discussion is on  traditional kolam )

and not like small thick lines. 

 First take minimum quantity of white rangoli powder. It is available with many vendors.  In Tamil Nadu it sold by street vendors 

 More the quantity, bigger the dots.  Also releasing the powder with thumb should be controlled to get small and beautiful dots or bindu.

For getting beautiful small, round dots, the texture of the powder should be right, and minimum quantity should be taken.

Optimum texture can be obtained by mixing thoroughly 3 parts of white rangoli ( sieved ) with 1 part of rice flour. 

Kolam as it is called in Tamil Nadu, means beauty, actually beauty in symmetry.  Beauty is achieved by various methods.  Placing small dots is one of them.

As they say small is beautiful.  Only when we get good control of our fingers we can draw thin lines, long lines, place small dots etc. 

This post may also have answers to how to keep dots or chukki .  More rangoli tips are available in this blog 
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The pic below shows beauty of using small and uniform dots in the design.
                                        
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