Rangoli or Kolam is a form of painting that is drawn at the entrance of a house using rice flour. This book introduces kids and adults alike to the popular and traditional art form of India. It will be a great starting place to explore multiple possibilities and unleash creativity into the daily ritual. This book includes over 1000 rangoli or sikku kolam patterns in black and white. After a few initial small designs, the book offers an almost endless variety of designs with easy to follow dot grids. Colors can be used to make the designs more fun and vibrant. Salient features ❖ 1000 plus knot patterns called sikku or neli Kolams ❖ 150 plus line patterns called padi Kolams ❖ Dozen more special designs like snake and Navagraha patterns ❖ Blank dot grids that can be used to create and practice designs ❖ Easy to draw ❖ No prior drawing knowledge or experience is required as dots guide the line❖ Beginner, intermediate and advanced levels ❖ Black and white sketches prepared meticulously to provide clarity ❖ No repetitive designs and endless variety

This book includes over 900 everyday small rangoli kolam patterns in black and white. It introduces kids and adults alike to the popular and traditional art form. This book will be a great starting place to explore multiple possibilities and unleash creativity into the daily ritual.After a few initial small designs, the book offers an almost endless variety of designs with easy to follow dot grids. Colors can be used to make the designs more fun and vibrant. Salient features ❖ 670 plus small sikku kolam or knot patterns upto 11 dots grid ❖ 150 plus padi kolam or line patterns ❖ Dozen more special designs like snake and Navagraha patterns ❖ Blank dot grids that can be used to create and practice designs ❖ Easy to draw ❖ No prior drawing knowledge or experience is required as dots guide the line ❖ Beginner level ❖ Black and white sketches prepared meticulously to provide clarity ❖ No repetitive designs PS: This is 1st part of the complete collection available as - 1000 RANGOLI KNOT KOLAMS (ASIN: B07WDNKK2Z)

Posh: Art of the Dot teaches readers how to complete and create stunning, meditative kolams. A form of drawing practiced in southern India, kolams are geometrical line drawings composed of curved loops and straight lines, drawn around or over a grid pattern of dots. Art lovers can follow step-by-step guides as they work their way through beginner, intermediate, and advanced designs. Each completed kolam is a gorgeous geometric marvel that can be colored in and decorated. With an introduction from anthropologist and kolam specialist, Anna Laine, this original book will help readers become experts themselves.

This book is compiled with the goal of explaining the hidden history, significance, and meaning of the mantras used in common Hindu puja rituals performed by the Bengalis to the Bengali immigrants.

Rangoli/ Kolam (or Muggu) - A conventional Indian adornment and examples made with ground rice, especially during celebrations. Rangoli is gotten from the Sanskrut word 'rangavalli'. Rangoli is a craftsmanship which goes before figure and painting. It is both a promising and a starter need in any religious custom. It is a custom to draw rangoli at the site of any promising religious custom, for example, a blessed celebration, a religious celebration, a propitious capacity like wedding, ceremonial love, a pledged religious recognition, and so on. Rangoli is a fine art, beginning in the Indian subcontinent, in which examples are made on the floor or the ground utilizing materials, for example, hued rice, dry flour, shaded sand or blossom petals. It is generally made during Diwali or Tihar, Onam, Pongal and other Hindu celebrations in the Indian subcontinent. Plans are passed starting with one age then onto the next, keeping both the work of art and the custom alive. Generally in temples, home, celebrations, pooja rooms, marriages, birthdays or any other important places; rangolis are drawn.The reason for rangoli is enhancement, and it is thought to bring good karma. Structure delineations may likewise differ as they reflect conventions, old stories, and practices that are interesting to every territory. It is customarily done by young ladies or ladies. For the most part, this training is displayed during events, for example, celebrations, favorable observances, marriage festivities and other comparative achievements and get-togethers. Rangoli structures can be basic geometric shapes, god impressions, or blossom and petal shapes (proper for the given festivals), however they can likewise be intricate plans made by various individuals. The base material is typically dry or wet powdered rice or dry flour, to which sindoor (vermilion), haldi (turmeric) and other regular hues can be included. Different materials incorporate shaded sand, red block powder and even blooms and petals, as on account of blossom rangolis. In center India mostly Rangoli is called Chaook and is commonly drawn at the passageway of a house or some other structure. Dried rice flour or different types of white residue powder is utilized for illustration Chaooks. Despite the fact that there are various conventional Chaook designs, a lot more can be made relying upon the imagination of the individual who draws it. It is viewed as favorable as it implies showering of good karma and success on the house and in the family. It isn't drawn like an image. There are two major types of Rangoli/ Kolam:1.Dotted pattern2.Free PatternDotted pattern starts by keeping dots to connect lines in rangoli/ kolam. Free patterns are without dots and the rangoli maker can start mostly from center of the kolam as per their wish. Dots are just to give perfection of lines and patters.This book is released for 100+ simple(basic), medium(intermediate) & advanced sized rangolis/ kolams which are drawn for different occasions like Diwali, Sankranthi, Ganesh Chadurthi, Ugadhi, New Year, Temple festivals etc. These kolams are not printed one; they are drawn simply with freehand. Most of the rangoli/ kolams/ muggus in this handbook are drawn with free hand in the paper or notebooks. Many others are down on the floor in our houses and temples as well. So nothing is computer generated design here. Naturally it has been pictured and cropped wherever necessary and brief description given for these designs!........MORE!

The roots between the Hindu religion and the wider culture are deep and uniquely complex. No study of either ancient or contemporary Indian culture can be undertaken without a clear understanding of Hindu visual arts and their sources in religious belief and practice. Defining what is meant by religion - no such term exists in Sanskrit - and what is understood by Hindu ideals of beauty, Heather Elgood provides the best synthesis and critical study of recent scholarship on the topic. In addition, this book offers critical background information for anyone interested in the social and anthropological roots of artistic creativity, as well as the rites, practices and beliefs of the hundreds of millions of Hindus in the world today.