Come festive season and I am flooded with memories of my childhood where the entire street would get decked up with festive decorations and each house had a rangoli in front of its gate competing with its neighbors.
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| Parallel lines are used in this rangoli |
Here, in South India, rangolis play a great part of the festive decor. Generally fine chalk powder is used to draw a rangoli and later filled with colors. Traditional rangolis are like joining the dots game where you place a certain number of dots in a pattern and join them through lines or use parallel lines to form a pattern. Of course, with times people are getting creative and use different materials like colored saw dust, colored salt, vegetable gratings, and flowers (a post exclusively on flower rangolis will follow). Unlike the north, rangolis are drawn in front of the gate or the door where it is believed to welcome Laksmi, the Goddess of wealth. Though it was mandatory for new rangolis to be drawn every day in front of the house, the art is disappearing in the urban areas due to lack of space and time constraints. I compiled pictures of rangolis drawn by school children in a competition held by the Rotary Club of South Bangalore. Take a look.
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| Colored salt is used in this rangoli |
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| Creative use of veggies here |
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| Mera Bharat Mahan |
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| Colored saw dust is used in this rangoli |
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| Colored Salt again |
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| Another veggie rangoli |
Do you draw rangolis? How do you make them? Do let us know or mail us your pictures.
Thanks: Dr. Prafulla Thumathi, President, Rotary Bangalore South
enri Gouri Ganesha habba jora nim kade..rangoli ella mastagi ide!
Hi Rekha,
Yes I do decorate my home with Rangoli whenever I find the time and opportunity. and I like to see and appreciate them as well. 🙂
These are really beautiful designs you chose to display ans more because they are from children 🙂
Soon, I will need tips from you (your blog) to decorate my home.
Keep going !
Oh lovely post Rekha… I'm saving this in my favourites and will one during Diwali.. Will send you a pic then!
Guess ,I'm not theonly one with the festive bug … great rangloi's …
I have seen these on rugs, but never knew of such origin. Thanks for letting us know of this tradition.
Nicolette
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I've never seen these … .
thanks for the introduction.
Love the colors and symmetry!
Jjjj
@LG, Laksmi, houduri, habba jore…nivu rangoli hakidre contribute maadi.
@ Niharika, Please do send me the pics wn you make one..
pat, do send me the pic when you create them this diwali.
Rajee, its hard not get bitten by the festive bug…glad you like them.
Nicolette, Judith, glad to see you appreciate the Indian culture and traditions. Drop in for more this festive season.
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Shashi these are very clever designs by school kids! And Pat, you spoke my mind- I plan on doing a rangoli too this Diwali, albeit a very amateur one:)
How abt all of us posting our Rangoli pics back here?
Sharon
loved this post.-…I remember my childhood days when we would get up early inthe morning and scout for designs to compete and be the best for that day….
With the festive season around the corner, these rangoli designs are sure to be of great help. I loved em' all!
Sharon, that's a great idea…we could post the pictures of our rangolis fr diwali.
vasudha, glad you liked the post.
Sarah, please keep coming back for more.
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Rekha,
LOVED this post. Like you said brings back memories from my childhood of "markazhi" month (December) when the streets would be adorned with such colorful kolams. The bigger, the better. The conch one remains my favorite till date as does the 9*1 leaves kolam.
I still collect kolam books for new designs.
Lakshmi, there was a time when I was crazy about rangolis, I used to drow them every morning in front of the gate, though it is limited to festivals these days.
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