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Rangoli Borders

Here are some more Rangoli Boders. Actually I am too tired today after a very hectic schedule. I wanted to post some very good and big Rangoli. But don't have time or energy to draw one now. 

But as I have written in my earlier post, I had doodled lots of Rangoli Borders when I was on the move. So here is one of those sets:

This time theme for my borders was "Leaves"

Hope you like them. I have still lots and lots to post...So just keep an eye on my blog.....

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Rangoli Borders

Past few days as I was out travelling, I just used to doodle in my free time. Actually the places where I visited were small and big villages and towns of the coastal Andhra. So I used to carefully look at the doorsteps or front yards of the houses. I came across some rare designs of traditional Rangolis of Andhra Pradesh. These designs I am doing in separate posts called Sankranti Muggulu or Sankranti Rangolis.

But I kept on creating more and more Rangoli borders. I was too tired to create some big designs and moreover I kept on getting new ideas for these borders. So I had created a lot of these borders. Here are some:

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Hope you like these border designs. Watch for more in coming posts.....

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Here are some more borders.

These have been drawn with the help of dots. Hope you like them.....

Well use them and let me know.

Keep a watch, more to come......

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Friends here are some more borders of Rangoli. They are drawn free hand  - with out any dots.

Hope you like them. I just keep on doodling these designs and if I think they are good then I post them.

Keep a watch...I will post some more...

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Rangoli Borders 

Here are some more borders.

These are with dots-3X3 dots

Floral

Diyas or lamps

Flowers and leaves

With out dots

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Rangoli Borders using dots

No matter how beautiful our Rangoli is, unless it is surrounded by borders, its beauty remains incomplete. Some of my friends were asking me to post more borders for Rangolis. It takes time for me to remember what I created  long back as I don't have any record of that. I am also creating many more now. Any way I will try to post some at a time. This time I am posting borders that can be drawn with the help of dots.

If you remember in my previous post I have posted some borders drawn with free hand. No doubt we can draw the borders with out the help of dots, it still is easier to draw them with the help of dots. they come out very neatly. 

Here are some:

You can see the dots in black and how to draw the designs.

These are very easy to draw.

Here are those which are a bit bigger in size. But by placing dots close you can reduce the size and vice-versa. 

Hearts, triangles and butterflies....

Hope you like them. do leave your, comments, suggestions and any requests for a particular pattern or design. I would appreciate that very much.

This is at present a dying art. Inspite of many women still continuing this art form, and men also taking up this with a passion, so many new forms or varieties like Rangolis in water, free hand Rangolis etc., are being created and added. But the original art form, the traditional designs are dying out. Even I don't remember so many of the designs which are specially drawn on special occasions like the Dhanurmasam, Sankranthi etc. One form of drawing the Rangolis-free hand using lines which we call as Dravidian style of Rangoli drawn especially during the one month of Dhanurmasa(when the Sun enters, Sagittarius) and the ones drawn during Sankranti-like Daarula Muggu (path ways) to enable the lord into the house, and that design which does not allow Sankurmaya into the house, chariots etc are all being lost. 

Recently when I visited my native place, I interacted with the women of older generation and they could give me some patterns. 

My sincere effort is to keep this live and pass it on to the next generation, so that this art form is live. Hope you all help me in this. please do contribute if you have any old and traditional designs. Send them my email and I will post them. you can also share your experiences with this art form please especially the seniors.

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Its raining heavily now. So I have to do my post as quickly as I can as heavy rains result in problems with power and also Internet. Well here I am.

Friends of late I have not posted on Rangolis much though I am doodling many new designs as well as recollecting and collecting old and traditional ones.  Here are some traditional designs of Borders which are used for decorating doorways, stairs and also on the edges of Rangolis to give a finished look. Some how a Rangoli design does not look complete with out borders on its edges. 

These are simple straight lines. But with a little creativity we can make beautiful designs.

Adding curved lines to these straight lines make them even more beautiful as you can see in the pictures below.

Oops! I sometimes don't keep track whether the paper I am drawing is straight or not. The result you can see .

Hope you like them. Some more next time.

Keep watching......

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Borders around a Rangoli enhance its beauty. Here I am posting some of the borders. These are all free hand drawings, that is with out use of dots.

I will be posting more as I pen them.So keep watching.....