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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...

mehndi design in rangoli kolam images

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This is a combination of two beautiful art forms  The   white mehndi rangoli design   is a totally different type of design and it does no conform to geometry or anything in nature.  I have tried some simple free hand patterns to which to spiral designs are attached outside and one inside.  The entire portion inside and on the spiral lines have some patterns on them that have been drawn spontaneously according to my imagination.  Hope it has come out well.  Mehndi designs are drawn with mehandi cone that is available in the market.   I wanted to try with  kolam powder few without chukki rangoli designs in white. To draw these designs apart from the quality of rangoli powder, dexterity and control are important factors 1) Henna mehndi rangoli designs Mehndi design rangoli simple  2) White rangoli with mehandi theme Mehndi design rangoli ka 3)  mehndi designs for hands with kolam as theme Mehndi design rangoli kolam 4) Mehndi ...

2 line rangoli designs for Diwali

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  How to draw 2-line rangoli  Pick two pinches of while kola podi with index finger and central finger, push both with the thumb such that the powder falls between the middle finger and index finger (first line) and outside the index finger (second line). The lines should be discrete and should not smudge as can be seen from the images. Simple rangoli designs without dots for Dhanteras too.  The rangolis are simple but the technique of drawing parallel lines comes with practice.  What better occasion that the festival of lights to try something special  Green glass and gold bangles combination worn by me has become popular on social media, it appears. " I like your karakamalam with green and gold bangles " Rarely, when I changed the glass bangles with those of a different colour "This is not Sudha Ma'am's hand?"   It is our family tradition to wear green glass bangles.  On rare occasions I used to change them with red glass bangles but after the ...