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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15 dots kolam new designs Bhogi
This blog post may have answers to 1) How to draw rangoli with dots 2) How to draw muggulu with dots. One of the bigger rangoli created by me. Dot pattern is 15 to 1. Number of dots decreases viz. (15,13,9,7,5,3,1) Though it is with 15 dots it is relatively easy to draw. The patterns below the neck (that represent the wings! are drawn first on the four sides. The beauty of this kolam lies in the symmetry of the patterns. One of the advantages or creating rangoli designs is that the result may be a unique rangoli. Actually, I thought of drawing butterflies and flowers but changed the theme to birds and flowers. Floral patterns are congruous with pakshi or titli (occasionally I use other languages too to describe the patterns to make it easy for those who are familiar with the terms in their mother tongue). White kolam designs with dots image 1 Floral designs at the corner...
`13-7 chukki rangoli
This post may answer the queries - how to draw rangoli step by step, how to draw rangoli with dots. These are interlaced dots i.e the current row of dots is placed between the previous rows. Mark this post for New Year rangoli or Deepavali rangoli designs. Some information about the first rangoli. It must be attractive to see but it may be difficult to master for some of us. What is otherwise a very simple chukki rangoli design for Sankranti one may face problems in ensuring that all the pumpkin ( poosanikkai in Tamil) patterns drawn around the central star design just touch each other. All of them should just touch each other. In some or all of them we may face the problem of leaving a gap or overlapping/intersecting (like a Venn diagram). The main criterion to avoid them is to have dot grid placed perfectly with equal gaps among the dots. Draw the floral (sometimes called pumpkin patterns in Tamil) starting from o...