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...
Small white rangoli kolam designs
These are basic designs that can be drawn at the entrance for our vasal kolangal hence images showing intermediate steps are not shown
Seven rangoli ideas are shown here that can be used for 7 days in 30 days i.e. simple kolam for a month.
One of the most common kolam in the pic below. The basic star pattern with petals from all edges. The 2 lines are drawn separately.
How to learn kolam We can learn this art by referring to books or websites like Rangolisansdots.
Drawing on a notebook is easier than drawing with kola podi.
Kolam making the traditional way demands coordination among the fingers and thumb.
Filling the inner spaces with patterns of our choice and also on the outside as demonstrated in the images below
The pics show one of the methods of creating a beautiful kolam even with a small design.
1) Small rangoli kolam easy
2) small star kolam
If you would like to try double lines simultaneously the smallest rangoli is given in the photo below
3) short rangoli design
5) Small and attractive rangoli
6) small and quick rangoli
After all regimentation suppresses creativity. The next pic shows how to draw a slightly advanced and intricate design once we are comfortable with some of the designs already shared in this post.
So, with this we have 7 naal 7 kolam designs for all days in a week.
7) Daily vasal kolam designs
Almost all the designs belong to the central pattern of a bigger pattern. The beauty of free hand kolam is that it can be stopped at any level and still be considered complete. Since this post is about very small kolangal, I have shared these pictures here.
Some of the old dotted rangoli designs that I share on YouTube, Facebook bring nostalgic memories for a few viewers.
One of them said (in Kannada which I understood using the translation tool on the internet) referring to a particular video that she learnt from her friend when she was in the third grade. She also won the first prize in the school rangoli competition by drawing the design in the video. To her surprise her teacher learnt the design from her.
She was moved and so was I. Without our knowledge it is surprising how we touch the lives of many persons around us. We should strive to see that the impact is only positive according to me. Coming back to the post simple, elegant, beautiful are some of the adjectives that are attributed to traditional kolam by my followers.
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