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Rangoli designs - Holi festival
Holi is the next important festival ( or event or celebration ) in March. Celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalghuna (February - March in the English calender ). One of the most...
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Gift ideas using rangoli designs
Apart from the fact rangoli designs are drawn to welcome guests ( and of course insects and birds when drawn with rice flour ) they can ( and are being used ) for decorations on gifts. One of the most...
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Rangoli designs - 15 dots
Rangoli designs above 15 dots may ( can ) be classified under an intermediate category, they are neither small nor are they very big. They can be drawn for festivals like Margazhi, Ugadi or at the...
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A rangoli and a recipe - Paal Poli or Milk Poli
Mothers day and rangoli are both important to me because it was my mother who taught me to draw or make rangoli. So for this Mothers Day I would like to draw a few in memory of my mother. She was an...
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A different rangoli and recipe - Mint pulav
As it is said "regimentation suppresses creativity ". Though drawing rangoli designs the traditional way is the most beautiful and awesome method of making them, once in a way we should try something...
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Floral decoration - garland
Floral or flower decoration is one important aspect of celebration of events like weddings, festivals and puja. or for simply decorating our homes. One of the important methods of of flower...
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Flower decoration by stringing rose
.The art of stringing flowers using different methods is followed in different countries. Obviously, I would like to add the method that I am familiar with - the ones followed in Tamil Nadu,...
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kolam - a few simple designs
After digressing from the main theme - kolam- posting a recipe for a festival and a couple of Indian floral decoration ideas - a simple method to make a garland and the traditional method of stringing...
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Flower decoration for braid
Floral decorations can be done in innumerable ways and along with rangoli form an art form that is creative in nature. Alankaram as we say in Tamil is an important art. Traditionally decoration of...
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Rangoli - double line double colour
While rangoli themselves are beautiful, rangoli drawn with parallel lines are even more beautiful. Parallel lines in rangoli can be drawn in two ways - drawing them simultaneously or drawing them...
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Cotton craft - two simple garlands
Cotton garland is commonly used in festivals for decorating the deities. This is a simple, hand made craft that can be used for decoration. Unlike some artificial garlands that are available the...
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Rangoli on water - floating rangoli
I have shared two versions - one with dots and the other without dots - of floating rangoli earlier in Rangoli-sans-dots. I have uploaded two videos in this category in my Channel Rangolisansdots....
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Floral decoration - stringing jasmine
After the posts on garland making with jasmine and stringing or roses, I am back with another one on jasmine. What I had written earlier on jasmine is a very easy and simple method of making jasmine...
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Thoranam or toran for decoration
One of the most environment friendly decorations that we can do is making thoranam or toran from coconut fronds. Unlike other festoons that are made from man-made materials the coconut offered by...
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Ananta Vrata
Ananta Vrata is celebrated on the fourteenth day before the full moon day in the month of Bhadrapada ( usually falls between 15th of August and 15th of September ). While Jeevthi Pooja is celebrated...
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Sundal recipes for Navaratri
Vinayaka Chathurthi kozhukattai, Deepavali and sweets ( bakshanam as we say in Tamil ) and Navratri and sundal are synonymous. It is customary in Tamil Nadu to invite relatives, friends and...
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rangoli , kolam for Pongal thru Margali
First the latest and new kolam designs for this special season for kolams.15 dots poo kolam for Margazhi The first kolam for the Margazhi season 2014. A flower kolam or poo kolam . This is quite a...
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Free hand rangoli designs - mandala art
Rangoli designs - theme - mandala or circular patternsThe word mandala or mandalam(in Tamil ) has many meanings - a circle, a halo, a cycle of 40 or 48 days or the circumference of a circle. (There...
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Festival - Varalakshmi Pooja or Vratham
Varamahalakshmi Pooja and Vratham (Varalakshmi nonbu in Tamil) is one of the most important festivals celebrated on a Friday of Sravan month. It is considered more auspicious if there is a full moon...
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Festival - Ganesh Puja
After Varalakshmi Vratham, comes Ganesh Chaturti . It is celebrated on Chathurthi (the fourth day) after new moon in the Tamil month, Aavani and Bhadrapada maasa in other calenders.Again, I would...
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