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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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Rangoli designs with dots - 6 dots

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6 pulli kolam | simple and easy  H  ow to draw beautiful birds with 6 by 6 pulli design.  The images show the steps.  The birds are majestic aren't they . This collection of square dot pattern type rangolis should be useful for your daily kolangal, small rangoli designs for Diwali, Dasara The videos for some of these designs are there in my YouTube channel Rangolisansdots .  All the rangoli patterns  are suitable to be used as Navratri rangoli for kolu, aren't they.  As is obvious from the images these are easy designs using simple patterns and can be used as a daily rangoli design. How to make rangoli powder at home   After purchasing the white rangoli powder from the local market , sieve using a fine sieve to remove solid particles. Add rice flour to white rangoli powder - the ratio is for one part rice flour add three parts rangoli powder to get  the advantages of both rice flour and  kola podi Square dot grids like 6 x 6 are com...
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Simple rangoli designs 5 dots

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30 plus small and easy chukki rangoli designs Making rangoli designs for Diwali with dots with colours in a few steps                  My mother used to tell us that rangoli should be drawn with thin lines because in her opinion too much of anything is not good.  Our family tradition is that everything should be within limits.  ( It is only our belief and it it not necessary it should be followed  because different people, families have different customs ).  Drawing kolam or rangoli,  I also learnt from my elder sister (mother is our first teacher ) who drew beautiful kolam or tipke rangoli or tipkyanchi rangoli designs ( as she calls them - she moved from Salem to Nagpur ! ) For Navratri, she used to spend a lot of time drawing kolam before God and Goddess from the first day of Navaratri till Dusshera or Vijaydasami . When I discuss with her after so many years she said that drawing kolam made her komal in typ...
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