Many rangoli are simple. A woman makes a small symbol to invoke

Many rangoli are simple. A woman makes a small symbol to invoke

Many rangoli are simple. A woman makes a small symbol to invoke a
deity, and places a flower, candle or food offering there.
This pattern from Bengal honors the Goddess Kali
This pattern from Rajasthan invokes the goddess of fertility and abundance.
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Goddess Shashti, who protects children and childbirth, dwells in this pattern.
This is a simple pattern for luck.
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This Rajasthani pattern depicts female creative energy.
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This simple pattern from Rajasthan is intended to bring pregnancy
This pattern from Rajasthan symbolizes the Yoni (the vulva), the source of life,
growth, and fertility.
Rajasthani women draw this pattern to invoke Baladevi, the goddess of children,
so they will become pregnant.
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Sathya, Swastika patterns, bring health and well-being, and have
been favorite auspicious patterns in India for thousands of years.
Sathya patterns also represent the Heart of the Buddha.
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Women make Kunda patterns to celebrate the birth of a child.
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Different patterns celebrate different seasons and festivals.
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Lahariya patterns symbolize the rippling water of the monsoon season.
Bhavari, the village well, celebrates Divali.
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Bijani, the fan, symbolize cooling breezes, and are popular in the summer.
Women draw the Goddess Lakshami’s feet in Rangoli to invoke her
presence in a sacred place.
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Punjab Hills
Women make rangoli to celebrate Holi, the festival of colors.
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Khera, Bundi
Holi-ka-dapti, Bundi
Holi-ka-Canga, Bundi
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Women invoke the cobra’s blessings of prosperity and fertility when
they draw cobra in their rangoli.
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Six petaled flower patterns, Adhakatya Phul, are drawn for the festival
of lights, Diwali.
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Women in Tamil Nadu make Pulli Kolam patterns based on 6-pointed
stars.
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Amiyal are lotus patterns from Kerala, which symbolize purity and
divinity. Hindu deities are often depicted standing or sitting on a
lotus.
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Kerala women draw these patterns on their doorsteps for holidays
and special occasions to bring luck to their families.
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Knotwork rangoli patterns:
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Marriage rangoli are elaborate, and may have smaller patterns
around them, extending to fill the whole household courtyard.
Flowers, tea lights, and incense beautify wedding rangoli. The bride
and groom may sit at the center, receiving well-wishers.
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A pregnant woman has an “athawansa”, or “filling of the lap” party
during her seventh month. Her friends and family bring her fruit and
gifts, and henna her as if she were a bride. “Cowk”, offering table
rangoli, patterns are drawn for the athawansa party.
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Women may paint baby’s footprints in henna or red paint by the
mother’s door so the child’s soul will know where to come live.
In Kerala, women make rangoli by laying out a grid of dots, then
connecting the dots with rice flour lines. They fill these patterns with
colorful herbs and spices.
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Indian women’s magazines and books have modern rangoli designs.
A woman draws a grid of dots on the floor, and then connects the
dots with rice flour lines. She fills the resulting pattern with bright
colored rangoli powder, sold in Indian bazaars.
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Kerala rangoli were filled with small flowers or flower petals for
special occasions. These rangoli could be very large for a wedding,
filled with colorful fragrant flowers and tea lights, and were meant to
depict a celestial garden.
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Tamil Nadu women create Kolam patterns by twining lines around
dots.
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Step-by-step for a large lotus pattern:
This rangoli seems complicated, but it’s constructed simply. Make concentric
circles. Then, divide the circle into eighths.
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Divide the circle again.
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Begin the pattern at the center.
Work out from the center.
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Continue working out from the center.
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Complete your rangoli.
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Gupta Lotus
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Gujarati Lotus
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If you make a small rangoli, you can scratch it in the dirt first, then put in your
lines. If it’s small and simple, you may be able to do this easily. Women made
large rangoli for special occasions, and these take more planning to get them
symmetrical and perfect. Lotus patterns are not difficult to lay out, and can cover
a very large area.
You can create a large lotus rangoli with a string, and two sticks. Pound one
stick into the ground at the center of the lotus. Tie a string on the stick, and tie
that to another stick. Mark concentric circles on the ground with a second stake.
Keep the string tight as you make the circles. Mark a diameter, a straight line
through the center of the circle.
Bisect the diameter. Hold one stake at where a circle intersects the diameter.
Stretch the string tight and strike an arc on the ground with the other stick. Do
the same thing on the other side with exactly the same length of string.
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Do the same things on the other side of the diameter, then draw a line from
where one pair of arcs intersect and where the other pair of arcs intersect. This
line should go straight through the center of the circles and be at a 90' angle to
the diameter.
Divide the circles into 8ths.
Divide the 8ths into 16ths.
When all these lines are scratched on the ground, you can start making the lotus.
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Scratch the lotus petal lines into the ground first with a stick. Start at the center.
When you have the lines right, fill them in with rice flour or corn meal. Put rice
flour or corn meal into a ziploc baggie, and snip off the corner. The flour will pour
neatly out the corner and make your rangoli line. Wheat flour tends to clump.
When the center petals of the lotus are done, do the next circle of petals.
When the lotus is finished, brush away the original circle and radial lines as well
as the footprints.
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Add flowers, tea lights, and turmeric powder for color, and more lines for a more
complicated Lotus!
Have Fun!
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Day 3
RANGOLI AT THE ENTRANCE
1. With the help of chalk and the rope draw a semicircle at the entrance as shown
in the diagram
2. Draw a rangoli using free hand drawing around the semi circle
3. Colour the rangoli using flowers
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Day 4:
KINARI
This type of rangoli is usually done around flowerpots, on the steps lead ing to
stage or on the threshold of the main door of the house
Draw rangoli
– using 4 points
– Using 5 points
– Using 7 points
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– Free hand
Some of the coloured patterns are shown as below.
(Note: Stencil can be used for replicating the pattern)
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Day 4
Rangoli for Puja Ghar
Auspicious symbols such as the swastik, kalash, aum lotus and geometrical
shapes like triangle, hexagon make a beautiful rangoli in Puja Ghar. It can be
made more attractive by arranging colorful flowers and leaves on it.
NOTE: Do not use black colour for making rangoli for Puja Ghar
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Some of Designs are as follow:
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DAY 5
Floral Rangoli
A floral design will make a beautiful rangoli. But it can be made more attractive by
arranging colorful flowers and leaves on it
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Day 6:
Rangoli for the corners:
Draw the pattern on the corners of the room and fill them using flowers and
leaves.
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Creating a rangoli and then tastefully arranging small lamps on it will make it
more colourful and glowing.
Some of the patterns for rangoli that are commonly used during Diwali
Decorate the following rangolis by arranging diyas on it
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DAY 8
Rangoli on Thali
This is a very easy, novel and unique way of making rangoli.
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Dip cotton in the oil and apply it on the thali
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Spread the colour on the thali with the help of sieve
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Make a freehand design on it with the help of your finger
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Place a diya in the center. Wherever there is pattern that you have made
by your finger, the shining steel of the thali will appears very beautiful
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