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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...

New Year rangoli birds kolam big and small

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This collection of kolam designs with dots ( some of them may be already there in various posts in Rangolisansdots ).   Rangolisansdots is a huge collection of hundreds of kolam that if we are looking for a particular kolam or particular genre ( if we can use this word here ) in kolam it is now almost like looking for a needle in a haystack. Medium size birds rangoli with dots , simple and beautiful The dot pattern is 9 dots 5 rows. Then 5 dots 2 rows on either side.  Draw the square pattern at the centre and the birds designs on all four sides  11 to 6 dots birds and rose buds kolam for New Year or Pongal ( Sankranti festival ) This simple kolam has leaves, rose buds and birds all packed in a small 11 to 6 dots grid.  We cannot ask for more for festival decoration that includes New Year and Pongal decoration. I created this kolam , as I do when ever I have free or spare time.  Even without colours as a white kolam or white rangoli , I...

New Year rangoli designs Sangu kolam

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Rangolisansdots is a huge collection of rangoli with dots and without dots.  Some feel that the name of the blog is misleading.   Sans means without, so rangoli-sans-dots means rangoli without dots.  There have been questions in the form of comments , that while the name suggests that it is a collection of kolam without dots , there are kolam with dots also.   Actually I draw a lot of free hand kolam and so I named it rangoli-sans-dots.  I have the URL address and the YouTube Channel also as Rangolisansdots.   There were and still there are many requests for kolam with dots so I have added a lot of dots kolam designs also.  Now I think there are equal number in either category.  However the URL address etc. cannot be changed and the name is also unique so I  have retained it. 17 to 9 dots sangu kolam | conch rangoli designs for New Year | Pongal or Sankranti This is a common kolam using the star and sangu designs to create a big ...