the kolam is drawn with 7X7 matrix in centre and in all 4 sides. the border is drawn with 15 dots to 1 as seen in the picture. these 15 dots borders are connected with 7to 1 dots in all the 4 sides. atlast the centre portion is connected with the borders with 3 to 1 dots as shown in the picture. the kolam is drawn with white colour flour and the designs are drawn with red fillings. kolam is decorated with lamps kept in a mango design in every fillings. finally the outer border is drawn as a free hand design.
contest winner
Here are the kolams and rangolis in this page:
- kolam for margazhi contest 2011
- Temple roof design for diwali contest 2010.
- Margazhi Dew Drops Rangoli Contest - 2010
- Margazhi dew drops Kolam contest - 2008-2009
- Margazhi dew drops Kolam contest - 2008-2009
- Rangoli contest -1st Tirthankara shree Rushabhdev and his symbol- the bull
- Rangoli made of sugar
Created by marees on 2010-11-15,
This is a round rangoli drawn with the inspiration of designs in the temple ceiling.
Created by brindhanagesh on 2010-01-26,
I welcome every one to my home on this magic carpet. It has been my long term desire to make a carpet. I did one for the first time and it is for you to judge how good it is.
Created by hema131177 on 2009-01-17,
This is straight dotted kambi kolam. 65 dots straight line and 33 dots horizontal line.
I have put this Vinayagar kolam for the Times of India margazhi kolam contest and I won the prize worth Rs.25,000/- Designer saree from RMKV. First I put this vinayagar on paper with pencil. It took 2hrs. Then I thought if I drew this kolam with rice flour, would it take more than 3hrs? So, I started this kolam at 3am in the early morning. Dots tooks 2 hrs, after that I finished Vinayagar at around 8.30am in the morning. Behind my house there is space to draw my Vinayagar. In that place we didn't have proper lights. My father and brothers made some temporary arrangements and fixed a small light, and my sister and brother's wife were also up early morning, and they stood in both sides and gave some feedback every now and then (...it looks nice, good, draw the line properly, correctly). My family supports to me a lot.
Hard work never fails. Its god's gift.
Thanks
With Regards
A.Hemamalini
Created by manivasuki62 on 2009-01-17,
Kolam done on Pongal by me.... My friends Sasikala and Swathi helped me....
Dot Pattern: 13 to 7, in between dots(sandhu pulli)
Sparkle colors were used for the big flowers...
Created by Sandeep on 2008-11-07,
Entered for diwali rangoli contest 2008.
I call this type of Rangoli a picture rangoli or shaded rangoli. It has a Jain theme, with a statue of 1st Tirthankara shree Rushabhdev and his symbol is the bull. It does look almost like a picture in the photograph.
The powders used are finely ground white marble (in Gujarati it is called CHIROLI) and finely sifted river sand and rubber colours used in industries. To colour the white marble I have used Cloth dyes (like Dylon) and food colours. The rubber colours are available in Kenya at indian shops. Marble & Sand colours are used in the figurative work and shading. The rubber colours are used in making the finer "abhla" the mirror work on the Toranas (or chadar) of the Bulls amd the Blue Green backround. I have very fine netting to spread large amounts of colour evenly and the shading. Used credit cards were used to do the shaping of the required figure work. Small funnels (available from shops that sell laboratary equipment) were used to put dots and circles and sometimes outlining colours.
In the end I have put gltter to compliment the shine in the marble powder
I hope this summary helps in understanding
It took me almost 20 evenings to do this rangoli.
