I would like to post some rangoli with dots because I have received many requests from friends and viewers. Almost all rangolis I have drawn for Margazhi month are free hand rangolis. However I want to limit the number of dots to 15 in this post, to make the rangolis simple so that I can devote a separate post for bigger rangolis.. Also I have not limited the design at the plain stage but filled with some colours. All rangolis in this post are creations (!) of my own imagination so please bear with me. Once one becomes relatively comfortable with free hand rangolis it is some what easy to create rangoli with dots. What we have to do is to imagine the design of our choice and try to fit it into a dot pattern. It is easy for smaller kolams with less than 15 dots and easier for kolams less than 10 dots. I have shown some examples in previous posts how a free hand rangoli an be converted into one with dots. The "lotus kolam", and the "butterfly and flower kolam" are examples. Similarly it is possible to convert other rangolis ( please note that I use the words rangoli and kolam because I do not differentiate between the two though there may be differences in classic explanations). Obviously, all rangoli with dots can be converted into free hand type. Here is a collection of some rangolis. Probably you will observe that there is a bias towards free hand designs even in these because that's my blog rangoli-sans-dots.
This is a simple collection - for little more difficult kolam designs with dots (click here)
The rangoli above a rangoli with dots of 13 to 1 dot pattern (ner pulli). The related video is also given above.
The rangoli above is of 9 dots to 9 dots pattern. The related video is given below.
The lotus rangoli above is with a dot pattern 13 to 1. The steps are shown in the video below. In case you want to draw a single lotus free hand version it is available in easy rangoli.
The rangoli above has a dot pattern of 7 dots by 7 dots
The dot pattern for the above rangoli is 7 dots by 4 dots.and a relevant video showing the steps to draw it.
The next rangoli is of dot pattern 7 by 7. It is also a simple rangoli with minimum colours and can be drawn in a few minutes as is evident from the video below.
