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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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rangoli kolam for wedding decoration

 kolam around a plate - traditional decoration for wedding

 Turmeric powder is mixed white rangoli powder till the colour turns yellowish.  Simple decorations 

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Vazhai ilai kolam pic 1

Lotus patterns before the banana leaf or plate.  Turmeric powder is considered to be auspicious hence it is added to the kola podi.  Some designs are given in the images.

Also drawn at home for festivals.


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This is a double or rettai ezhai kolam - the two ezhai or lines drawn simultaneously.
I have shown images of rangoli designs drawn before a banana leaf ( vazhai ilai decoration). 

Traditionally this leaf is used for serving meals for weddings and other functions.  

For important festivals like Varalakshmi Vratham, Ganesh Chathurti, Navaratri there is also a tradition of decorating the banana leaf or plate on which the naivedyam is served to the family members with this type of kolam.

For the leaves on which the bride and bridegroom dine, more elaborate kolam can be drawn.

This post may also answer the following

a) Tamil wedding kolam
b) Rangoli designs for marriage function

Nuni elai as it called is that part of a banana leaf that tapers (the outer edge of the leaf when it grows on a banana plant - not a tree since it lacks a woody trunk, I think so.  what is your opinion).  the leaf is placed so that the narrow portion comes to the left of the person who sits with the leaf before him/her.

This is the tradition followed for all festivals and functions.  If you observe, in weddings they serve only on nuni elai , provided it is not a buffet.

This simple art form is part of our everyday lives, be it the kolam at dawn or for wedding decorations as shown in the examples above or drawn on the floor, entrance for various festivals and occasions.  Some say there is mathematical reasoning in this art.  Some are overawed by the simplicity of the art still encompassing creativity, dexterity, variety and of course Mathematics in some types of kolam.  Maybe when we draw kolam we are doing something not ordinary but do not realise it.  However, for me it is a daily way of performing Pooja to the entrance just as we do Pooja to the Gods in the Puja room.

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