Kolam by Sudha Balaji

  Nowadays stickers for rangoli designs are available.   The satisfaction I  get when I  draw a kolam in the morning listening to devotional songs in the background is bliss.   It is to be experienced and cannot be explained in words. When I visit my acquaintances, it is painful to see rangoli stickers at the entrance.  Stickers should not replace a traditional kolam .   If time and space are constraints, we can draw small and simple designs. You can choose from the thousands of designs available on this rangoli website.     The images above show one of them. While the black and white kolam in the pic can be drawn for our daily kolam.   It can be filled with colours for festivals like Diwali (Deepavali in Tamil Nadu). The use of spirals in simple rangoli is demonstrated in the design shown above.   If the spiral designs are drawn at a single stretch without any breaks, the rangoli will look even more beautiful....

One of the most popular patterns either for the centre design or for expanding the rangoli is the star design.   We should have an inventory of patterns that we plan to use when we create a without chukki rangoli design or in other words, free hand rangoli. This will ensure that various combinations are possible, of course the patterns chosen should match.  The result is the number of rangoli we can create is infinite.   That is one of the reasons, I have been creating and sharing for the past 10 years. Another reason is the passion I have for this art.  I just do not get tired and bored.  Add to it the encouragement and motivation given by the viewers on social media through their messages, comments and feedback.   I am pleasantly surprised that kolam as I call it (for my mother it was muggulu ) has become so popular.  Step by step pictures for a star based easy rangoli for the festival white outline rangoli first step pic Use of geomet...

Diya decoration with CD rangoli | eco friendly For this simple CD craft , draw rangoli designs on CDs with cotton bud dipped in honey.  Sprinkle semolina and tap gently to remove excess semolina ( or rava ).  A beautiful and easy Diwali diya decoration is ready for us to decorate our homes and show off. The lighting of diyas gives a beautiful and divine ambiance for this easy craft for Diwali Apply honey inside the patterns and paste kundan stones Diwali diya decoration with floating rangoli  Probably one of the most innovative and creative ways of decorating our homes with rangoli is using a floating rangoli and using the floating rangoli to light a diya.  The steps are as   Fill water in a vessel almost to the brim. Sprinkle rice flour throughout the water surface so that it forms a thin layer. Now place a CD rangoli or any other CD art on the surface of the water. In the remaining space draw rangoli patterns to decorate around t...