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Innovative rangoli ideas | tools | paper cups | cotton buds | Sudha Balaji Diwali rangoli designs

Tools at home for Diwali rangoli designs ! Identify them they are there before our eyes. The objects that we use daily can serve our purpose to create patter...

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Padi kolam for Margazhi or New Year rangoli | Sudha Balaji geethala muggulu for Sankranti

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwHuVZQFx6IgUcHg0Lnqf4QtJr8sHZVD1 Lines rangoli designs drawn for festivals. If some one tells you that rangoli design...

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Some rangoli ideas for wedding and occasions. These kolam are usually drawn on Fridays . Also for importaant festivals like Ugadi, Tamil New Year and Navratr...

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Regimentation suppresses creativity. In rangoli too some non-traditional methods of creating innovative rangoli are followed for decades. Rangoli is created ...

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படி கோலம் | Aadi velli kolam | Big padi kolam | Sudha Balaji

படி கோலங்கள் - திருமணம் , வரலக்ஷ்மி விரதம் , வெள்ளிக்கிழமை Such big padi kolangal are for weddings, Varalakshmi Vratham decoration and Friday.

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Padi kolam 

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rangoli for Puja room

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A peacock kolam or rangoli (9-1 dots)

The dot pattern used is 9 to 1 ner pulli. The result after drawing this kolam 4 peacock like designs. For www.rangoli-sans-dots.com

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Rangoli aka kolam aka muggu

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Rangoli designs a.k.a kolam or muggu through Rangoli-sans-dots - rangoli patterns, art and craft ideas through images and videos

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A free hand rangoli border

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A simple sikku kolam

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Simple rangoli design

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kolam for Friday

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They trace wonderful patterns in white powder upon the red soil, which has previously been well swept and beaten. Their designs are but fleeting, and are carried away by the lightest wind or by the feet of men, goats, dogs, and crows. They do their work very quickly, guiding themselves in the tracing of these designs by marks which have been placed there beforehand, and are visible to them alone. Bending forward in a graceful attitude, they move the little box which contains a powder that escapes in a white trail like an endless ribbon over the surface of the ground. Complicated arabesques and geometrical figures grow marvellously under their hands. Often, too, they place a hibiscus flower, an Indian pink, and a yellow marigold at the chief junction of their network of lines after the design is completed. The little street, decorated from one end to the other in this manner, seems to be momentarily covered by a fairy carpet. Pierre Loti in “India”

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The daily (and temporary) art of making a rangoli/alpana/kolam is no longer as commonplace as it once was in many parts of India.  These pictures are from the 1950s and offer examples of printed contrast and puff sleeve blouses of the time (Loti’s book also makes a mention of the ways in which Indian women combine patterns and colour). 

A few links on the math behind the design and cross cultural similarities. 

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