Line kolam

Dotted kolam

Dotted / Line kolam drawn with 15-1 straight dots. Aadi Kondattam with flower motif designs. 

Steps:

15-1 straight dots

Dotted kolam

Dotted kolam

A dotted kolam with 15-15 dots. D.C. - Mugglu4all.blogspot.com

Steps:

Padi Kolam

Padi Kolam

Good Morning!

Aadi is the 4th month in the Tamil Calendar. It is considered as an auspicious month, in which lot of rituals, and festival's  are also celebrated by people.

Today I'm sharing a Padi Kolam with wet rice flour.

Sikku Kolam

Sikku Kolam

Good morning!

A simple 7-7 dots Sikku kolam with flowers studded on four corners. This is from my Kolam Notebook.

Dotted kolam/Line Kolam

Dotted kolam (11-1) dots

A simple notebook kolam with 11-1 dots.

Dotted kolam (15-8) dots

Dotted kolam/ Line Kolam (15-8) dots

Double Stroke Kolam

This is a Double Stroke kolam with 15-8 dots. For this you need to hold kolam powder with 4 fingers and make a stroke / drag the kolam powder to form a shape. (Thumb finger, index finger, middle finger and ring finger).

This design is from my Kolam Notebook.

Steps to draw this Rangoli:

Round Kolam ( Guru Purnima)

Round Kolam (Guru Purnima)

Good Morning!

Happy Guru Purnima!

Guru Purnima is celebrated / dedicated to all the Spiritual and Academic Gurus. It is a tradition to pray, gratitude to the Guru.

A round kolam with pure white colour.

Padi Kolam (Aadi Velli)

Padi Kolam

Good morning!

Padi Kolam for Aadi Velli (Friday) with lotus studded on four corners. This is an open air kolam.

Freehand Kolam/ Aadi kolam

Freehand Kolam/ Aadi kolam

A Freehand kolam for Aadi Kondattam. This is an open air kolam drawn with kolam podi / kolam powder.

Line Kolam/ Celtic knot kolam

Line Kolam / Dotted kolam

Good Morning!

This week's task was to create a Celtic knot in dotted kolam. Celtric knot means which has no starting / ending point. An Eternal Knots in form of kolam/ Rangoli. 

The above Kolam is drawn with 10-10 dots. I removed last 4 dots so that it resembles the Celtric knot pattern. This design is from Pinterest.

Line kolam

Line Kolam/ Dotted kolam

A simple 21-7 dots Swastik Design. A simple 7-7 turned into 21-7 dots Rangoli.

Sikku Kolam (Swastik Design)

Sikku Kolam (Swastik Design)

A Sikku Kolam with 19-7 dots which is designed to form a Swasthik pattern. This is a miniature of Kamalavathy Kannan ma'am's kolam.