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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...

My Friday vaasal kolam

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 Some of the kolam I draw on Friday are shared below with some description of the steps involved.  Most of the rangoli here are with two colors white and red ochre or kaavi border , the old style of rangoli designs in kolam art.  Drawing a sikku kolam on Friday at the entrance should be avoided according to my mother and I invariably follow it.   I draw small free hand double line or single line kolam with a kaavi border for Friday.  This kolam design as with many free hand kolam designs is thought of after we bend down to draw the kolam.   The common star shaped double line kolam is drawn for the centre so that there is no starting problem the rest of the patterns  have been drawn as shown and the deepam or lamp patterns just fitted in the gaps so beautifully incidentally.  This kolam was drawn as a Friday too.  This kolam is a combination of commonly used patterns / motifs in many of my kolams   .  The central floral des...