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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...

Free hand rangoli designs - mandala art

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Kolam can also be drawn with mandala as a theme (one of the meanings is round or circle -  rangoli is commonly referred to as mandala in some countries).   Drawing a circle (or a near circular shape) without using a piece of chalk tied to a thread comes with practice.   As I often say, in rangoli practice may not make us perfect but can reduce the number of mistakes.  Margazhi kolam drawn during the month of Margazhi including Pongal kolam (aka Sankranti muggulu ) is the great time  when we see big and bright and different types of designs. It is easy to draw a free hand mandala or rangoli if we draw a baisc floral petal pattern as the centre. Invariably in rangoli the length of the petals are almost the same except for slight differences  so that we can join the edges of the petals to form a circular pattern.   After all, a circle is a polygon with infinite sides (Credit - my children!   Whenever I refer to geometry in Rangolisansdots cred...