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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...

Simple apartment kolam designs

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This post may have information on simple flat kolam,  small space rangoli designs, apartment muggulu and small without chukki rangoli designs.   To ensure that this beautiful tradition ( of drawing kolam every day usually at dawn ) is continued. Rangoli that is drawn on a daily basis goes under many names colloquially - door rangoli, daily kolam and daily rangoli being some of them. Obviously, since they are drawn daily almost all of them will be plain and simple too.   In this series of door  rangoli or rangoli that is drawn at the door  or the main entrance some of the designs I practise, or draw will be featured.   One who is not familiar with this type of rangoli may get an idea as to how a simple rangoli is drawn every day.   This is quite common in Tamil Nadu, a state in the southern part of India It is still early days for Rangoli-sans-dots and hence I am focussing on random designs, one or two in each post.   I am also concentr...