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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...
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Without chukki rangoli for daily use

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I do not use any aids viz.  drawing the pattern with chalk piece, using scale to get perfect symmetry.  Whatever symmetry I attain is through practice only.    Use the white rangoli for daily purpose.  Traditional kolam art followers emphasise the use of only rice flour to create this art.  For beginners it will be difficult to control rice flour among the fingers due to the texture. It is floury, true to its name and hence will not flow freely.  The lines and patterns will appear discontinuous, and the result may not be appealing if you are trying it for the first time.  People with lots of experience can manage with dry rice flour.   To encourage many more to try this art also because there appears to be some degree of reduction in the number of practitioners who draw daily, particularly in cities, it is preferable to use a mixture of rice flour and white kola podi.  This will ensure that the good qualities of both these ingredien...
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Without chukki rangoli for Diwali

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  Quite a few viewers on social media (Facebook, Blogger) ask me why I have used the name "Rangolisansdots ".   (I have already shared the reason, however for new visitors)- Sans means without in French, I am told.  I started with rangoli without dots.   A white design that can be used for daily purpose I am on social media sharing rangoli designs for eleven years now.  Obviously, there are several requests for designs with dots too. So, I am sharing both types.  However, the name stuck.  It is not possible to change the name.  It leads to several problems with search engines.   They frown upon changing name.   T he freedom with free hand rangoli is that we can decide the size depending upon the space, time and imagination at our disposal. Same rangoli with colours for Diwali festival (also known as Deepavali in southern part of India).  Adding colours to the plain white design can result in creating the most bea...
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Easy small rangoli designs for Diwali

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  Nowadays stickers for rangoli designs are available.   The satisfaction I  get when I  draw a kolam in the morning listening to devotional songs in the background is bliss.   It is to be experienced and cannot be explained in words. When I visit my acquaintances, it is painful to see rangoli stickers at the entrance.  Stickers should not replace a traditional kolam .   If time and space are constraints, we can draw small and simple designs. You can choose from the thousands of designs available on this rangoli website.     The images above show one of them. While the black and white kolam in the pic can be drawn for our daily kolam.   It can be filled with colours for festivals like Diwali (Deepavali in Tamil Nadu). The use of spirals in simple rangoli is demonstrated in the design shown above.   If the spiral designs are drawn at a single stretch without any breaks, the rangoli will look even more beautiful....
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