Rangoli-3

Friends, I want to share you some of the Rangolis drawn in front of my home now and then. These are free style or free hand drawings, or have been drawn using small lines as base.

 This is a simple design drawn using the mesh of four lines in the center.

 

 This was also drawn using the mesh of four lines in the center.

 

This ia a free hand design.

 

This has been drawn using the four lines in the four corners and the top. I am not so very skill full. So my design is not that neat.

 

Here is a closer look at the bottom portion of the design.

 

 This is again free hand design drawn with coloured powders.

 

This is a 6 petaled Lotus. This is considered to be very auspicious and denotes Goddess Lakshmi (wealth).

The center has been filled with turmeric, vermilion, marigold and chrysanthemum flowers and also berries known as Regipallu in Telugu or Ber in Hindi. These are offerings to Sun God and Lord Vishnu.

 

This is a closer look.

I will be back next time with more complicated and intricate designs. Please leave your suggestions and comments.

Rangoli-2

Friends here is some more about Rangolis.

I am sorry I could not post these before Sankranthi. It could have been helpful to some of you. But I have decided to post regularly some of the designs I know. That way I can build up a bank of designs, which would help people looking for them.

This time I am going to show you about the designs which are drawn using lines. Well these are almost free hand but use the help of strategically placed lines for guidance.

Strictly speaking these are what the puritans call the real Rangolis.Some of these are used for special rituals, or say occasions like the festival of Sankranti.. These are also known as Dravida Muggulu or the Dravidian style of Rangolis. But I find many similarities between these from South India and  those free hand designs from Bengal and Gujarat etc.

Here the basic guidelines for the design are the mesh lines as drawn in the last picture. With these four crossed lines, we can create so many designs.

 

This is one of the simple ones. Note that the 4 crossed lines in the center using dark blue are the guidelines or the base for drawing the designs. Now see how the different designs have been drawn using these four lines.

 

 

 

 

So just try out new designs, experiment and create your own designs. I will be posting some more designs as when I put them on the paper.

So what do you thing?

Please do leave comments and suggestions if any.

Some more Batik

Here I am once again with some more batik. But this time its from my own state Andhra Pardesh. This was done on a very fine cotton. These days many women are learning various arts and skills and setting up their own units, earning well and standing up on their feet. Specially, block printing, tie and die batik, fabric painting, embroidery on saris and dresses are one of the many vocations they are choosing. This not only gives them to practise their creativity but also helps in earning handsomely.

I happened to pick this one up for my mother. the combination is dark pink with green pallu and borders. This can be starched but is very comfortable without in summer when it is unbearably hot. Its also very soft.

Just see the designs....

These are the designs on the green pallu...





















This is on the bottom of the sari like a border

These are the butties allover the sari



This is the contrasting green pallu for a dark pink sari....

 

How do you like these simple designs?