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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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Easy rangoli kolam designs with colours

Important Rangoli tip Filling up rangoli with colours of our choice or suitable to the motifs or patterns used.

 Filling rangoli with rangoli powder also comes with practice because care should be taken to ensure that the colour of

 one pattern or design does not spill into the other. 

 However, if it happens, it can be corrected.  For example, if we fill a rose with pink colour and we inadvertently

spill green meant for the leaves, on the pink petals, that can be corrected by adding pink again over the spilt green colour.

Drawing neat and beautiful curved lines makes the rangoli very attractive though it is a very simple rangoli design. 

Colourful curved lines parallel to the white design can be drawn to get a colourful design. Or leave it plain and simple.

These rangolis can be used as apartment kolams as they are called in Tamil Nadu. 

Apartment kolam are small rangoli designs drawn at the entrance of apartments due to constraints in space. 
                       
Some designs in here may be suitable for kids too!

This website also has posts on recipes and crafts - some examples are given below for reference 



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Rangoli very small kolam collection
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all these images are for beginners, flats or apartments too 

Initially, I did not have the idea of using water mark on the images.  Actually, I too find it annoying.  However, I discovered that some of my images were being used elsewhere without asking me.  So, I started using water mark to dissuade such practice. 

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Small and easy rangoli kolam - what I have shared below is a design obtained by connecting the dots at the centre of a 21 dot or 19 dot kolam.  However, it can also be used as a small rangoli for our daily purpose designs.

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These designs are created by me.  However, I share some common rangoli with chukki too on Facebook too, reluctantly.  I was pleasantly surprised by the feedback I got.

"Beautiful design .... I had almost forgotten this design, the number of dots.  I could quickly reload the memories of making this rangoli on Fridays in the 1990s " 

So, I have decided to share even common kolam , someone will definitely be benefitted.

"Where do you purchase rangoli colours, they are beautiful " this is a common question viewers ask on social media.  I purchase from Koradi near Nagpur.  In Tamil Nadu, we lived near Salem when I was young.  In Salem awesome colours are available.  Copper sulphate blue in Salem is the best in my opinion.   Salem is also famous for colourful sarees.  May this is one of the reasons awesome colours rangoli powder is available there.  However, in Tamil Nadu kolam are filled with colours only for Diwali, Pongal, Bhogi and New Year.  Daily kolangal are with white kolam podi. 

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