What is Rangoli Design?

Art and music were blended with Indian culture since it was originated. India has rich and powerful cultural value. Its heritage is incomparable. Rangoli is one of the rich Indian arts. Every Indian, especially women should know and how to present creatively the Rangoli design. Women will be taught Rangoli from their childhood onwards by their parents. Rangoli stands for Row of colors. Our motto of launching this website is to bring the attention of everyone to learn Rangoli. This art should not be extinct.

In this website I have presented a simple tutorial that makes everyone to learn Rangoli design very easily. I have presented range of designs from expert. Basically Indians get everything from the Nature. They lived with nature the so called five elements, Earth, Water, Air, Sky and Fire. The idea of making Rangoli designs and colors is taken from butterfly, peacock, flowers, leaves etc. If you have a closer look on clouds in the sky, Cross cut trunk of a tree, nerves of a leaf and River you would notice some design pattern.

If you absorb the color combination of butterfly, Bees, peacock you wonder the nature. The Basic idea of Rangoli is creative design that filled with rich colors.

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Myths and beliefs

Kolam the South Indian Rangoli art is traced back thousands of years. Rangoli is drawn in front of homes to welcome the new guest, good luck, and fortune. But it is believed that Kolam or Rangoli is drawn to control the ants inside the home.

Yes, even 100 years back the Rangoli was drawn using the coarse ground rice powder. The ants would take the particles of rice and go out of home. And also by quenching the hunger of the ants the family would also get good fortune. Due to cost and other difficulties in making this method people started use coarse ground white sand what we call “kolam powder”. It resembles rice powder. Now-a-days people complaining that ants are destroying eatables inside home. It may be a one of the reasons that we gave up the method of using rice powder Kolam.

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Expert's Talk : Rangoli Desin
An Interview with Sainarayana

Q Nice to meet you. Please
introduce yourself for our readers.

A I am Sainarayana, you can call me Sai shortly. I am interested in many areas from electronics to astrophysics. One of my hobbies is Rangoli.
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Q How was your first Rangoli Design experience?

A well, when I look back about 10 years and its still bore in my heart. That was Chitirai month, Lord Renganatha statue comes around the street. The people of Srirangam were cleaning and drawing Rangoli in front of their homes. Unfortunately my parents were out of station. Lord Renganatha was nearing my home and I decided to draw Rangoli in front of my home. I was bit nervous. With heavy tension and pressure I had done something and it was appreciated by everyone. And I realized I too could make rangoli. That was my first Rangoli.

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Best Rangoli Design of May 2011

Type : Rangoli on Paper
Name : Tamil Selvi
Location : Trichy, TN, India