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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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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.

Kolam may be considered a folk art because there were no books or tutorials (the present generation has a huge treasure of information on the art through social media).

 It was handed over from mother to daughters.  We learnt from our mother by observing her draw the patterns. She was my first Guru who taught me this beautiful art.

So, every day when I draw a new kolam at the entrance of my house I remember my mother and thank her for all she did for me including handing over the art of rangoli, the interest to practise and pursue it.  She also imbibed in me the ability to imagine and create novel ideas in kolam.  

Whenever I made a big and beautiful kolam with colours and had to erase it the next day to draw a new one, it was painful. 

 My mother taught me through this process of erasing the art done so painstakingly,qualities of patience, destruction of ego and acceptance of the transient nature of kolangal.
                 
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Double stroke kolam designs with colours 

These experiences while making and erasing kolam has helped me in life too. They have made me humble and pious. All these I owe to my mother.

Double stroke muggu with colours and without colours ( simple plain white ) in the pics.       

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white kolam or safed wali rangoli

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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I write this without any exaggeration - my mother was an epitome of positive thinking, patience.  She had an ever-smiling face. Usually we see children "hand over" any problem they face to their parents.

I was also no exception.  She with a smiling face would say these are trivial issues; they will get resolved. She also advised that most problems we imagine do not exist.  I realise that such positive thoughts come with age, experience and wisdom. 

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