Thursday, December 29, 2011

Rangoli-154

Nela Muggulu

Here are two more of the special Rangolis for Dhanurmaasam:


The base for these Rangolis are the criss cross grid drawn on four corners. See below

These are free hand drawings. Hope you can understand it. If not mail me and I will post a detailed tutorial.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Rangoli-153

Floral Rangoli


Here is one Rangoli which is big.


20 dots per row-10 rows;
18, 16, 14, 12, dots per row;
Final row 10 dots.


Join as shown. If you space out the dots the Rangoli will be much bigger in size.






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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Rangoli-152

Pongal Special

This Rangoli is known as Pongali Kundalu. Pongali means rice dish. Kundalu means  pots.

The sweet variety is known as Chakkera Pongali where milk, jaggery and rice are boiled together and ghee and dry fruits are added.

The spicy one known as Pongali, has rice, split green gram and spices. 

The sweet one is cooked by all the South Indians on Sankranti day-the day Sun enters the Capricorn. This rice dish is offered to Sun God, cooked in new clay pot and on wood fire. Its   taste is something which has to be experienced.
For this Rangoli, the dots to be placed are:
23 dots in center row,
21 dots--2 rows on either side
leaving 5 dots on each side, 11 dots 3 times
5 dots 5 times
then 1 dot

See how they are placed above.
Join as shown above. You can see the Pongali pots and earthen ware oil lamps.

This is especially for Sankranti or Pongal festival. Keep watching.....