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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.   ...

Rangoli sans dots is 12 years young

 On 20th of August 2024 Rangoli sans dots completed 12 years successfully.  When you are there for the long haul encouragement from followers, subscribers and viewers is the motivation. I shared a post thanking my followers on Facebook.  I am grateful for the wonderful comments received there .  I am sharing some of them in this blog post  "Wow!! Great madam.  Heartiest congratulations on successful completion of 12 years of such beautiful divine and dedicated art.  May God shower all his blessings on you and your family with loads of happiness and good health.  I am indeed blessed to see your kolams/muggulu daily as though I am drawing myself. Great inspiration for one and all to keep continuing our tradition even in this present digital life ...."  Shailaja Bharath "You inspired me to draw rangoli daily.  Many thanks to you!  Keep sharing your rangolis.  They are such a beautiful one " - Medha Kulkarni "Congratulations my dea...