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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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Without chukki rangoli for Diwali

 Quite a few viewers on social media (Facebook, Blogger) ask me why I have used the name "Rangolisansdots ".  ( I have already shared the reason, however for new visitors)-

Sans means without in French, I am told.  I started with rangoli without dots.  A white design that can be used for daily purpose

I am on social media sharing rangoli designs for eleven years now.  Obviously, there are several requests for designs with dots too.

So I am sharing both types.  However, the name stuck.  It is not possible to change the name.  It leads to several problems with search engines.  

They frown upon changing name.  

The freedom with free hand rangoli is that we can decide the size depending upon the space, time and imagination at our disposal.

Same rangoli with colours for Diwali festival (also known as Deepavali in southern part of India). 

Adding colours to the plain white design can result in creating the most beautiful rangoli designs (in the world!)

Most of the designs are created spontaneously.  Many a time I share the rangoli created in my notebook.  Sometimes I make few modifications.  Some changes may be made as I draw too. 
    
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    Coming to the rangoli, please compare the design with colours and the one without colours.  I use a black granite slab for drawing designs for my website.  Hence the black background.  White rangoli are beautiful in their own way and we can use them for our daily rangolis.  The colourful design can be used for the festival. 

    If you are looking for a small and simple rangoli for festival decoration.  this may fit the bill. 
Coming to one this rangoli, this was one of the earliest designs that I created.  I had shared many including this in earlier posts. 

 From the era of desktop to the era of mobile the transition was quite quick - just a few years.  There were scores of images in each post.  To make the website mobile friendly, I had to remove a few images in each post (among other things).  The result is that this kolam and its colourful companion find place in this post.  By the way, which do you think is more beautiful - the one with colours or the plain white kolam. 

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