Kolam by Sudha Balaji

  8 pulli 8 varisai pulli vacha poo kolam  the dot pattern is 8 by 8 square dots Quite a simple design.  Draw the flower patterns at the four corners.  Connect them with pairs of curved lines as shown in one of the pics.  Fill will colour or shade with white  Only shading and lines for this chukki rangoli design Idea is to fill the spaces as much as possible. One of the simplest chukkala muggulu for daily purpose rangoli There are mainly two types of kolam with dots - where are the dots are connected by patterns usually repeated to get a symmetrical design or sikku kolam wherein the lines are drawn around the dots without touching them.   In the former type it is a good practice to connect all the dots so that there is symmetry - unilateral or bilateral.  Do not leave any dots.  Use them also to draw some designs that match the remaining part of the kolam.  If you see in the images shown above some dots remain inside the petals....

The dot pattern used is 5 by 5.  First mark the multiplication sign like pattern at all four corners.   Connect them with parallelogram shaped patterns.  I use photos with the position of the fingers in most cases to make the images more user friendly.    believe that it helps the user to immediately focus on where the rangoli is progressing.  I hope it is so. This is more useful in bigger kolam and will be useful for beginners for all sizes of kolangal. The next step shows how the design develops further.  The bottom right corner shows the rangoli in a previous step where two inclined lines are drawn.  They are converted into the shapes shown on the bottom left. This is done on all four sides. The remaining steps are quite easy.  Add some lines and dots inside and shade both sides of the parallelogram to get a simple and beautiful rangoli. The next white rangoli on a black ground (I use a granite slab for my rangoli designs for ...