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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...

Traditional Tamil New Year kolam designs

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A step by step guide for drawing a traditional kolam designs through pictures While we can have free hand designs or designs with dots for festival decoration of our homes and  there are many in Rangolisansdots belonging to those categories , this post will delve upon only the old kolam designs that are popular and beautiful in their own way.    They can actually be challenging too , occasionally.    It is still early days in Rangolisansdots and so dots rangoli designs can wait ,  we can have exclusive posts based on number of dots , themes like birds , flowers and so on. Without chukki New year rangoli in progress , steps through images  Old type kolangal are beautiful in their own way  The step by step procedure through the images above should make it simple.  Instead of a square base , we start with a hexagon so it may not be a classical padi kolam if we strictly go by definitions. After drawing a hexagon draw ...