About Rangoli Design>> Rangoli Introduction

About Rangoli Design>> Rangoli Introduction

Rangoli Introduction

Art and music are blended with Indian culture since it’s 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 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.

Difference between Rangoli & Kolam

Rangoli

Kolam

Generally Rangoli is made without dots

different patterns of dots used to create Kolam

Must be colored

Many times coloring is not required

You can create at the instant

You need to practice before you present

It's kind of free hand art

It is pre-defined

Rangoli instrument may be needed

All manual work

More creativity needed

Less imagination & creativity

It has no structure

It is structured

As Rangoli has no dots it is very difficult to re-create

Kolam is basically a connecting dot art so any one can replicate.

Generally Kolam book is kept for future generation in a family

There is no such kind of book

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Rangoli Design: Basic skeleton explained

Rangoli can be a difficult art when it is looked at distance. Its so easy when it is created using dots. Almost all rangoli and koalm are created using dots so that the out put will be perfect. Here are some basic dot concepts explained.

Parallel dots - type 1 Parallel dots - type I [Tamil : Neer Pulli ]
Put 4 dots 4 lines. Dots arranged parallel to the above row.

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Parallel dots - type 2 Parallel dots - type II [Tamil : Neer Pulli ]
Put 5 dots initially. Reduce one dot both ends in nex lines till you reach one dot.

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Parallel dots - type 3 Parallel dots - type III [Tamil : Neer Pulli ]
Put 5 dots 3 rows. Then reduce one dot both ends in nex lines till you reach the required dot. You will need to stop one dot or two or three depending upon the Rangoli type.Click here to enlarge the picture.

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Parallel dots - type 4 Interlaced dots - [Tamil : Idukku Pulli ]
Put 5 dots. Then put interlaced dots and reduce one dot each side till you reach one dot at end of the row.