Kolam by Sudha Balaji

We all want to display our rangoli skills particularly during festivals like Sankranti and Dipavali.  Of course many of us prefer easy and simple designs .   Here is one of them. With a 7 by 7 dot grid we can get a Pongal kolam or Sankranti muggulu with dots with a Sankranthi Pot  two sugar cane and the Sun.   All these three symbols represent the harvest festival Pongal.   The sugar cane has been represented in purple , the  kunda is overflowing with sweet Pongal and of  course Sun   who we worship for this festival  all have been shown in a small and compact design.  his festival is also celebrated as Makara Sankranti  Karnataka and Maharastra and other parts of India.  My mother called it the Pedha Pundaga  or big festival in Telugu.   First step for the kundala muggulu with dots - 7*7 dots rangoli   Next step for this kundala muggu chukkalu type One of the many ideas for Pongal kundala mu...

For those who have read most posts of  my blog  , you would observe some changes.  Rangolisansdots has become a huge collection of different types of rangoli designs.   So I am trying to categorise them into various types to make the blog more user friendly.  The idea is that one should find what he/she is looking for.   I am trying to revamp the blog by putting myself in the mind of the user.  I do not know how many designs are there but when I applied for copyrights for the blog I found that the copies ran into several hundred pages.   The designs are free for those who use them for their personal use. I was reluctant to apply for copyrights .  I was really not happy when I discovered that many YouTube channels and websites started using my designs.  So this long and strenuous exercise , I had to do -  applying to the Registrar of Copyrights.  It was then I discovered that I had shared thousands of designs for ...

Rangoli designs in this collection, were drawn on a kitchen slab! All are spontaneous creations. Later I started recording them in a notebook for reference not for drawing but for sharing on social media. Here is a gallery of simple and small muggulu images. 1)  Beautiful Sankranthi muggu lu design 2) Small Sankranthi rangoli  Rangoli colours _ I get them from Nagpur where my sister lives.  She gets them from Koradi near Nagpur (there is a Goddess Lakshmi temple in Koradi ,  I came to know from her).  Though I have visited Nagpur many times, I have never had the opportunity to have a darshan there.   As the saying goes - to have darshan of God (or Goddess) we need Her/His blessings.  The rangoli colours are sold in several shops there.  There is a huge collection of colours.  The texture is just right that we can draw lines using them.   3) Sankranthi rangoli without dots  Compare the muggulu above and below.  The sec...

This kolam can also be drawn free hand.  I have used 7 into 1 dot pattern to make it little easy.  When we are looking for small and beautiful rangolis for Dhanurmasam or New Year I think such designs fit the bill.  Of course we can add colours instead of shading with white kola podi.   As a plain white rangoli it can be used for our daily purpose kolangal. Five , seven and nine chukki rangoli designs are among the most popular because invariably grid size is directly proportional to time taken and complexity.  Invariably because there are exceptions to the rule and those exceptions are quite a few. 7 to 1 chukkala muggulu variety - step by step images  See how decorations and shading increase by leaps and bounds a simple dot kolam with lines  If you are looking for 7 ner pulli kolam or 7 dots rangoli kolam  this may satisfy your query to Google :)  

Drishyam or visuals are the best ways of remembering things.  I observed by mother and elder sisters draw rangoli designs daily and of course for Margazhi , Pongal festivals. For 30 days they made huge rangoli designs both free hand and with colours.  My task was to pick up the boxes with colours and give it to them , occasionally I was given the responsibility of filling colours in one element ! I learnt observing them and then practising lines and patterns on my own on a cement floor.  I have come a long way since then. I have shared the step by step images for just one rangoli in this blog post.  A common pulli kolam drawn in our family for decades particular for Sankranti festival Simple flower patterns and butterflies are matching designs in any rangoli.   It is very easy to represent butterflies and flowers in muggulu .  That is the beauty of this art.  All of us can become artists. This 15 chukki rangoli can also be drawn for Dasara for gol...

Sankranthi muggulu | Pongal kolam designs 13 to 7 chukkala rangoli.  We can term this as a medium size rangoli based on the size of the dot grid.  Again, medium is a relative term.  I consider upto 15 dots as medium size dot pattern. Step by step images for this 13 to 7 chukki rangoli  Draw the parrots as shown in the images Decoration with the remaining dots is left to our imagination Just shading may be sufficient for Dhanurmasam , for Bhogi or Pongal we can use colours  This muggu is with 15 to 8 dots  This is a popular parrot kolam. There were requests for a video for this designs.  I have shared it on Facebook and YouTube  Two muggulu designs with parrots as theme.  I have added intermediate steps.  Please try for Dhanurmasam , New Year or Sankranthi festival   If you are looking for 15 chukkala muggulu with colours or 15 chukki rangoli the kolam above may be apt.

If you want to learn conch rangoli with dots, shanku chukki rangoli you may find the step-by-step pictures useful for learning. These variety are drawn for New Year, Sankranthi or Bhogi festivals.  We can also draw on Wednesday or Saturday if we have time to draw such a somewhat complicated rangoli. The dot pattern is 9,10,11,12 then 3, 2,1 dots.  This is a smaller version of a bigger muggu. As for as possible draw the elements of the shankam particularly the body whorl and spires ( top ) without joints. I have shared only the white muggu , you may add colours as per your imagination  Hope the pics showing the steps are clear to draw it for the festival

Sankranthi 2022 is around the corner , a grand festival   ( Peddha Panduga according to my mother and grand mother  ) The muggu below is a butterfly design using 13 to 1 dot pattern The first pic is without colours and the second with colours.  What are butterflies and birds without colours !! Only photos have been added to this blog post.  I presume that someone who is looking for designs for a rangoli competition can decipher easily the method. Colourful shading has been done to the white rangoli   I think you can guess that dot pattern of this "Mamidi aaku " muggu This is a 11 to 6 dots flower kolam called Parijatham White or colourful chukki rangoli , you can choose what you want  This is an old and traditional muggu , the dot pattern is 15 dots 1 row, 13 dots - 2 rows , 9 dots - 1 row,  7 dots - 1 row , 5 dots - 2 rows then 1 dot

The harvest festival Pongal is when in the villages ,  sweet Pongal is made with freshly harvested rice, jaggery .  It is celebrated with great pomp and splendour.  A new Pot is purchased painted with designs .  Sweet Pongal is prepared and offered to the Sun God as a mark of respect and gratitude for helping the farmers in agriculture. Two fully grown sugar cane are also offered.  Kolam  are drawn in the area and at the entrance of the house also with generous use of colours  When the sweet Pongal starts to overflow everyone around shouts "Pongalo Pongal".  There is joy and happiness all around. Pongal panai kolam with dots step by step images | chukki rangoli The dot grid used is 11 by 6 Draw lotuses all around as shown in the images below Connect the lotus with petals or leaves Convert the remaining dots at the top into petals Now it appears like a crown of flowers when viewed from the top ! Using the dots at th...