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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...

Simple alpona alpana border designs pics

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 Wet   Arisi maavu kolam or alpona borders Rangoli has synonyms in the art forms  arisi maavu kolam (rangoli made with rice flour paste )and Alpona.   Both are somewhat similar.                                                                        Alpona for beginners Arisi maavu kolam translated means rangoli drawn with rice flour.  It can be drawn with dry or wet rice flour.   However I discuss here wet rice flour rangoli since the technique is similar to that of traditional  alpona  (I understand it is also drawn with rice flour paste) The thickness/consistency of the rice flour paste varies according to rangoli making method adopted.   We can use fingers, or a cloth dipped in rice flour paste to draw the kolam. At present ready-made sticks are a...

Bagyada Lakshmi Baramma in Tamil lyrics English meaning

A very popular and revered song of Sage Purandaradasa .  I have shared the song as I have learnt from my mother.  I have tried my best but my knowledge of Kannada, Tamil and English are the constraints.  If still this post is useful I will feel blessed. We can sing on Friday ( Sukravar ) or Navratri Friday or Varalakshmi Nombu There is  video from my YouTube channel Rangolisansdots - the song sung by my friend.   The link for the video is  Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma    if you want to know the tune, lyrics  and the meaning for the lyrics Friday Pooja songs | Varalakshmi Vratham Pooja songs  Bagyada Lakshmi Baramma song lyrics in Tamil  Meanings in English | English translation Please enter ,  You give  happiness , Lakshmi please enter  Our Mother , You give  Supreme Happiness , please enter  When you take one step at a time Your anklets jingle When the pious and saints perform Puja You appear like ghee ...

How to make lotus flower garland

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    Lotus garland } Thamarai poo malai } for Purattasi Saturday Pooja } Laxmi Puja |  Lotus is one of the most beautiful flowers and is associated with Gods and Goddesses and hence used for Puja decoration.  We invariably find images of Gods seated on Lotus.   The pink lotus is associated with Goddess Lakshmi and white lotus flower with Goddess Saraswathi.  The traditional method of making garland is shown in the photos .   I have added as many images as possible to make it easy for step by step learning , the closest one can get to a video. First we have to prepare the banana fibre called vazhai naaru in Tamil.  Vazhai thandu is the correct word in Tamil.  I do not know the equivalent for thandu - stem is associated with plants and bark is associated with trees -  even though I studied botany I do not remember the exact word that can replace thandu in English.  So let me use the Tamil words as much as possible. The banan...