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Saturday 7 July 2012

Rangoli Designs

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Rangoli Designs Biography 
A rangoli is a colourful design made on the floor near the entrance to a house to welcome guests. At Diwali, Hindus draw bright Rangoli patterns to encourage the goddess Lakshmi to enter their homes. Here at Activity Village you can learn about rangoli by looking at photos and videos, print out some rangoli colouring pages for a simple colouring activity, try out some rangoli fuse bead patterns as a quick and non-messy craft idea, or have a go at some of our more extensive craft projects, which take you through designing and creating rangoli of your own with many different ingredients. Find out all about rangoli and explore our rangoli crafts below...Wish you a very Happy Ugadi and Gudipadava. Check Rangoli of the day.

Welcome to Rangoli Designs Portal.Rangoli is an ancient cultural practice and folk art from India, which is generally made by the women of the house. Rangoli is a geometric or floral design/pattern filled with vibrant colors and flowers which is generally put at the entrance of the door and at the center of a courtyard.Rangoli is a popular art practiced across India and called by different names such as Kolam in South India, Mandana in Rajasthan, Chowk purana in North India and Aripana in Bihar.Rangoli Designs

Rangoli is an ancient cultural practice and folk art from India, which is generally made by the women of the house. Rangoli is a geometric or floral design/pattern filled with vibrant colors and flowers which is generally put at the entrance of the door and at the center of a courtyard.

Rangoli Designsis a popular art practiced across India and called by different names such as Kolam in South India, Mandana in Rajasthan, Chowk purana in North India and Aripana in Bihar.Creating a Rangoli involves a great deal of creativity and there is always a great demand for creative patterns. Keeping in mind this search for good Rangoli designs, I have uploaded a few Rangoli patterns that will help make you home entrance pleasing to the eye and more welcoming.I hope you will enjoy creating them as much as I did. I will keep uploading further designs as and when I create them.The Rangoli designs are passed down through generations, with some of them being hundreds of years old. Though the designs vary in different sections of India, the basic approach is common. The designs are geometric and proportioned. It has been a tradition in culturally rich India to draw Rangoli on the festivals and other auspicious occasions as it is considered a holy ritual. There is a unique relationship between the festival of diwali and rangoli. Diwali is a major festival of India and drawing rangoli on diwali is a part of diwali celebrations.


The patterns are made with finger using rice powder, crushed lime stone, or colored chalk. They may be topped with grains, pulses, beads, or flowers. Since the entire objective of making rangoli in diwali is to welcome Goddess Laxmi, small footprints coming into the home, representing the footprints of the Goddess, are also made. Rangolis can be of any size, from the size of a doormat, to the covering an entire room. Though making of a Rangoli is highly dependent on the preferences and skills of the maker, lines are always drawn on one finger movement (rangolis are always drawn with fingers) and frequently, the mapping of the rangoli is done with the help of dots, which are joined to form a pattern, and then the pattern is filled with colors. One important point is that the entire pattern must be an unbroken line, with no gaps to be left anywhere, for evil spirits are believed to enter through such gaps, if they find one. In an expert hand, the images created are elaborate and look as if they are painted. In India, this art is temporary. Each rangoli design generally stays for only a day or two as it is often redone as a part of the daily routine. Certain designsare created on special occasions such as weddings and religious festivals like Diwali.

Rangoli designs are generally based on themes that have been in use through ages. The common rangoli themes are the celestial symbols such as the rising sun, moon, stars, zodiac signs, holy symbols like Om, mangal kalash, swastika, chakra, a lighted Deepak, trident, "shree", lotus etc. Goddess Lakshmi in the lotus symbolizes the figure of renewed life. Other popular themes are natural images like flowers, creepers, trees, fish, birds, elephants, dancing figures, human figures and geometrical figures such as circles, semi-circles, triangles, squares and rectangles. Drawing Diwali rangoli at the entrance door of individual homes is the common sight during Diwali decoration. For this, the footsteps of Goddess Lakshmi entering into the home are designed at the main entrance of the home or near the place of worship, which indicates the entrance of prosperity in the home. This is the special Diwali rangoli for the entrance. It is considered auspicious as it signifies showering of good luck and prosperity on the house and in the family.
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1 comment:

  1. I was looking for more rangoli designs to pin to pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/kumar65/rangoli-designs/ when i discovered your website. Thank you for sharing your awesome collection of rangoli's.

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