Kolam by Sudha Balaji

There is a tradition to draw a kaavi border around the muggulu designs on Fridays Talking of auspicious kolam for auspicious occasions, there is a tradition of drawing a muggu with lines (lines rangoli design)   for auspicious occasions like weddings, housewarming.   I have drawn a simple lines muggu probably one of the smallest rangoli with lines. Though the final picture looks simply, we can go off track while drawing this kolam that is an excellent exercise us and can be challenging also.   These steps are an attempt to simplify drawing this kolam Drawing parallel lines close to each other is the requirement.  (Of course, with powder) and without any aids we can do it as is humanly possible).  Such thin lines are drawn in ezhai kolam - a unique design that has a rangoli or muggu design with patterns formed using many lines.   Ezhai means a single strand of the many strands in a thread or string.  So the lines should be as thin ...

 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 row.  Mark this post for New Year rangoli or Deepavali rangoli designs. 13 dots kolam | 13 dots rangoli | 13-7 dots rangoli | 13 chukkala muggulu ,, Connect the dots to get curved lines without a break. This is the important tip in this rangoli Colourful lines are better than filling completely for this kolam This is one of the most awesome rangoli designs you can draw for Diwali  The next 13 dots design you can use for Sankranthi rangoli designs Connecting outer dots two samples shown Again with very few colours you get a beautiful rangoli for Dasara Two rangoli designs shown through images step by step.  The more you observe your elders drawing kolam, the easier it is to learn.  This is my experience.  When I draw for my videos, my daughter observes me occasionally...

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...

Geethala muggulu for Sankranti | New Year | Pongal Variety geethala muggulu in this post !  am asked on YouTube that my bangle wearing style  is very beautiful !  It is just our tradition is wearing green glass bangles separately or with gold bangles. So  when I wear two gold ornaments on the hand and that is invariably the right hand   , the green glass bangles  are between them.   If I wear 4 gold bangles , I wear green ones between any two gold ones.  I am pleasantly surprised that I am observed so closely in my rangoli videos.   Actually one lady raised doubts about who is drawing the kolam when I changed my style  of wearing bangles ! Geethala muggulu video please ! This is the request many a time on YouTube and Facebook So I create lots of designs.   This video is one of them.  This muggu was created spontaneouslyThe circular design is simple and beautiful too .  The video is 👉  muggu video ...

Sikku kolam or melika muggulu If we read we may understand , if we do we will learn perfectly.  No amount of notes or written matter is sufficient to draw some of the not so easy melikala muggulu also called neli kolam or chikku kolam as it called in Tamil. Many of the dot patterns used or non standard though the common dot patterns are also used in some muggu.  Observing the pictures carefully may help one in understanding the concept behind each muggu of this variety.  The better option is to watch the videos and practice again and again till we are comfortable. The dot pattern is 5 by 5 with 2 extra dots on four sides  Padi kolam designs or rangoli designs with lines  The next is the padi kolam or rangoli with lines in this blog article on different types of kolam that are commonly drawn in various parts of India, Southern India. These designs are ubiquitous particularly on Fridays , functions like house warming , Aksharabhayasam and ot...