Painted Saris

These days fabric painting is in vogue-on saris, suits and other dresses blended with embroidery or as it is. Here is a sari painted beautifully with birds.  It is pure cotton with blue and yellow borders on either sari. I don't know what to call the colour of the body of the sari-may be grey?

Yellow border on one side. The entire sari is painted with bird motifs in blue yellow and red, like these in small size.

 Blue border on the other side

This is the pallu painted with bigger sized birds.

The borders are also painted very artistically.

The sari is the Bengal cotton sari and has been painted by the artisans from Bengal. Beautiful isn't it it? So we are preparing for the hot summers here ......

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Kalasam and Roses Rangoli

Kalasam or Kumbham means a pot(made of gold, silver, bronze, copper or 5 metals oreven earthenware) decorated with leaves of Mango (or leaves of 5 different trees including mango) and a coconut on the top, smeared with turmeric and vermilion, sometimes tied with sacred thread etc.  The pot may be filled with water or rice, along with flowers, turmeric  and other such items. It is used in auspicious occasions and prayers.

19 to 1 straight dots.

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This is a 6X6 block developed into a bigger Rangoli.  Can be further developed depending upon the space available.

This rangoli is very simple and easy to draw. I you want to colour it, first fill the entire  space with colour or colours of you choice and then draw the Rangoli on it.

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