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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.   ...

Mother's Day special rangoli

 Mother's Day is as important as Women's Day.   The thousands of rangoli designs I have shared in this blog I owe them to my mother.   

She was an expert in free hand rangoli.

 She drew very big rangolis with and without dots particularly for Sankranthi.  She lived in a town called Vijayanagaram near Vishakapattinam. 

 Pedda Panduga as she called Sankranti was very important to her.

She was very much fond of double stroke rangoli. 

 For those who are following me on social media like Blogger, YouTube and Instagram may have noticed I also love double line rangoli designs. 

In fact I share only a few of them because it may not be easy for many particularly for those who want to learn this simple Indian art

So for Mother's Day I have shared a parallel line rangoli with and without colours.  In fact, this was also one of her favourite designs.
                 
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Double stroke muggu with colours and without colours ( simple plain white ) in the pics.       

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Rangolisansdots is popular in its niche. I remember her gratitude for giving me this art 

An addition to this post - My daughter's gift for Mother's Day - a quilling card. Nice idea isn't it.

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