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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...

kodu kolam designs kodu kolangal

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kodu potta kolam  This is a simple design I have tried with colourful lines based on a request from a viewer on YouTube.   She regularly gives her feedback on my videos.   She wanted some colourful designs with lines.  Traditionally as we may be aware these kolams are drawn with white lines only.  Many viewers on YouTube ask me how I create designs.  Usually after dinner, when I have spare time   I sit down with a notebook and pen or pencil and try various patterns and some of them come out as videos.  There are still many that are yet to be converted into a video.   After dinner is the time for creating kolam or for stringing flowers for the next day Pujan listening to devotional songs.   We can draw directly with rangoli colours provided the quality is good, it should not be floury i.e should not be sticky The traditional rangoli with lines called padi kolam in Tamil or geethala muggulu in Telugu is also called ko...

Padi kolam- rangoli with lines- lines muggulu

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Big and grand padi kolam can be drawn for important functions like marriage, grahapravesam.  This series of pictures should be self explanatory.  D ecorate with kaavi powder mixed in water. Padi kolam or muggulu usually start with a square base and are expanded.   They are invariably drawn free hand and rarely with dots.   I will try to add some padi kolam with dots too.  Padi kolam can be drawn on all auspicious occasions like weddings, ( marriage ) ,  house warming, and for festivals -  Ugadi  rangoli, Pongal kolam and any other festival. While elaborate  and colourful designs with dots are drawn outside the house we can draw such muggulu inside the house because such traditional muggu reflect the festive spirit to a great extent.  A simple muggu for Sankranthi festival season , the images showing the step by step procedure.  Actually the final picture may be confusing to some but actually these designs  are very ...