Kolam

Pulli Kolam
Pulli Kolam: It's common for Hindu women of India to decorate the entrance of their homes with pulli kolams everyday. It's kind of a ritual passed on from generation to generation. Pulli kolams are also known as dotted kolam. Based on a pre a
10 Traditionally cherished rangoli designs and Kolams by Sudha Balaji
Sudha Balaji is an experienced rangoli design artist from India. She is the founder of rangoli sans dots, which literally means rangoli without dots. Rangoli designs can be made with or without dots and lines. Most rangoli artists prefer freestyle rangoli designs, which allows them to explore their creativity levels. Sudha Balaji hails from a small town named Omalur near Salem, Tamil Nadu. Initially she started with rangoli designs without dots and slowly moved to kolam designs with dots due to popular demand. During festivals, lamps...
10 Beautiful Portrait Rangoli Designs and kolams by Vijaya Sharadha
Vijaya Sharadha is a brilliant rangoli artist and palmistry specialist. Till date she has created 1000+ kolams and rangoli designs which have been shared with the entire world. Vijaya Sharadha is an ardent rangoli design expert. She hails from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She grew up in a household, where kolam is an integral part of the culture. Everyday starts with simple or complicated rangoli designs, which are mostly created with rice flour. After her daughter's birth, she started focusing on rangoli designs, which is very close to...
Kolam Designs by Priya Nanthakumar
Priya Nanthakumar's kolam designs can be literally seen in every household in India. Kolams are an integral part of Indian culture, especially in Southern India. Waking up to carnatic music bhajan, watering the tulsi plants, decorating the front porch with beautiful kolam art is part of the culture. Priya's kolam designs range from simple to complex detailed designs. First the dots are created on the floor with rice flour and lines are connected to make knotted designs which then create the beautiful rangolis. The twists and...
Kolam Design by Kamala Corner
Kolam designs are most popular in India. It's mostly created on the floors with the help of rice flour or limestone powders. Indian states different names for kolam designs according to the native language and culture. Kolam art is known as Muggulu, Aipan, Alpana, Rangoli and more. Kolam art is created by using either dots or freehand and totally based on the designer. Kolam art with dots follow certain patterns and its mostly created using dots and lines. Flowers, diyas, peacocks are the most popular designs in rangoli art....
Kolam Design by Uma Raja
Uma Raja's kolam designs use rice flour paste as one of the main ingredients. The rice flour paste serves as food to all insects and birds, making it environment friendly. The mandala design kolam designs are directly created on the floors and the brick red outline completing the look. Rice paste kolam designs are a little tricky for the beginners, because one cannot literally see the designs if it's a light background. Choosing a dark background helps in creating detailed kolam designs. Repetition of patterns and lines is a...
margali kolam by Bairavi Kumaran
Margali kolam designs are quite popular during the month of December. The margali kolam designs can be freehand style or created with dots. The patterns for the margali rangoli kolams are mostly flowers, petals, diyas, god, goddesses and more. Bairavi Kumaran, is an upcoming margali kolam artist from India. Her rangoli designs are colorful and large. Throughout the month of December, the front portion of the houses are cleaned and thousands of women, wake up before sunrise and apply these margali kolams as a sign of postivity....
Margazhi Rangoli Design by Mangalam Srinivasan
Margazhi Kolam design by Managalam Srinivasan: Mangalam Srinivasan is an extremely talented kolam artist from Trichy, India. Her hobbies are creating beautiful rangoli designs, painting like traditional tanjore painting, oil painting and so on. She and her mother Saroja Krishnamoorthy are talented rangoli design artists. For making these beautiful rangoli designs, rice flour, colour chalk powders and other materials were used. Her work is featured on "My Mom's art gallery" a proud daughter who has created a page...
kolam
Kolam: Kolam is an art which women of South India use to decorate their homes to welcome good spirits. Did you know that Kolams are also therapeutic? By bending and drawing kolams, one's backbone gets strengthened and ofcourse toned legs. Kolam is known by many different names in the country, Sanjhi in Uttar Pradesh, Alpana in Bengal, Mandana in Rajasthan, Chowk purna in Madhya Pradesh, Rangoli in Maharashtra and Karnataka, Muggulu in Andhra Pradesh and Puvidal in Kerala. The history of drawing kolams dates back to the Indus...
Pongal kolam & rangoli designs
Pongal Kolam & Pongal Rangoli: Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. If you have visited South Indian homes, you are sure to be welcome with kolams, but on the occasion of Pongal, women draw huge Pongal rangolis, which nearly covers the roads and streets. Every year pongal kolam competitions are held to encourage budding artists. Pongal rangoli designs are drawn using coloured sands and pongal kolams are drawn using dried rice powder, which serves as food for ants and other tiny creatures. On...
Rangoli Designs for Diwali: We have listed Shanthi Sridharan's colourful rangoli designs for diwali festival. Shanti Sridharan is a talented rangoli kolam artist and hails from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Her diwali kolams are full of eye popping colors and it really adds to the beauty of her talent. Her diwali rangoli consists of peacock designs and flowers. Her designs are quite intricate and the choice of colors are equally matched. Her diwali rangoli designs can be practised by any emerging/professional artists. Diwali...
Indians love colours and its natural to show the love for colors in many ways. Indian rangoli is an unique art work which is practiced throughout India. All houses are adorned with these beautiful kolam, kolam designs, rangoli kolams during special occasions like festivals, marriage etc. There are many rangoli or kolam patterns which are used to make colourful designs on the floor. Kolam competitions are held every year to encourage this unique art. Here are a collection of Beautiful Kolam designs which you can try at your home...
Pongal Kolams and rangoli designs: Pongal is celebrated on Jan 15th this year and what’s special about it? Well it’s a harvest festival and people decorate their houses with pongal kolams, make the sweet pongal and go for family picnics while biting into the tasty sugarcanes and sharing family stories. Pongal kolams are normally done with many different colours. Pongal Kolam competitions are held ever year to encourage young and old artisans. Both men and women participate in these pongal kolam competitions. In this post...

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