another treatise

nice mam.

wow lovely padikolam n extensions!-suguna murugesan

Nice padi kolam with kavi

Wow, lakshmi mam - Nice padi kolam and beautiful application of kaavi.

As you were always asking for some suggestions, though I may be younger to you would like to suggest you one thing. In your padi kolam, I could see five ezhais, which is an odd number. My mother would always tell us that traditional kolams or padi kolams should be made with even number ezhais like 4, 6 or 8..... as odd numbers are not auspicious for these type of kolams. We have some senior members here like Rajam mam, Jaya mam etc..... May be they can clearly explain why we should not use odd number ezhais for padi kolam.

Lakshmi mam, this is only a suggestion. Please do not have any hard feelings for this.

Mahalakshmi

very lovely padi kolam design mam superb

Very lovely padi kolam in double lines lakshmi mam...pl have a look at one of my kolams inspired by ur one and let me know what u feel....

Very lovely padi kolam in double lines lakshmi mam...pl have a look at one of my kolams inspired by ur one and let me know what u feel....

very nice.

very nice design .

very nice design in padikolam. The kolam looks little dull may be because of t rice powder used. even then it looks like a 'soft beauty'.
Regarding number of ezhai, only we avoid three ezhais in padikolam since elders consider 3 is not auspicious. 5 lines we use. But most people used to draw double ezha while drawing padikolam so it has become a custom to put even number in padikolams.
rajamma

rocking mam..i really love the way the double lines are made so swiftly and curves are just awesome ! superb design and kaavi kolam !

Excellent lakshmi. Usually most of the traditional padikolams are drawn using double strokes. The multiplication of double strokes are always even in number. Hence we see padikolams with 2,4,6,8 etc no. of strokes.

Lovely padikolam with a beautiful kavi border.
-Sindhuja

indeed very cute and neet kolam dear