Kolam by Sudha Balaji

While we would like to maintain our tradition, save our heritage, nowadays time is an important factor   Many of us are working and have to balance personal, official life.   Consequently, the need for quick and easy kolam.  We can try big and elaborate designs for festivals and functions and reserve small kolangal for our daily use. Also, nowadays most live in flats and the space available to draw kolam is restricted.  This is also a reason why small and simple kolams are in great demand. The pictures give some ideas on how we can create beautiful designs with just three dots.  Sky is the limit when we let our imagination run riot.   It is possible to create beautiful kolams using the smallest dot grids.  Hope the above pictures prove it. One important point to be noted is that small pulli vecha kolams or chukkala muggulu chinnavi that are drawn with dots can also be drawn without dots.   However, many of us find using dot gr...

T his simple rangoli design uses an innovative and non traditional method of making rangoli. Place a bullet using rangoli colours and using a cotton bud draw a different type of floral design Develop the rangoli into a circular design with bullets around and press them flat with the finger  to get a unique pattern, the colours I have used are suitable to make a simple rangoli design for Republic Day or Independence Day. Simple rangoli for Diwali with cotton buds | finger rangoli making technique     Creative rangoli designs without chukki Simple rangoli or border with bangles and cotton buds techniques The next rangoli is with bangles .  The bangles are placed in a triangular shape.  Depending upon the number of bangles we chose the rangoli size will vary. I have used 3,2,1 the simplest combination since it is for a demonstration only.  After placing them in the descending order, draw circles inside the bangle with the inner side of th...