BNB 17 Kolam examples

Kolam

The BNB17 contest has created quite a stir with our dear international beaders who are hearing about Kolams for the first time in their lives. So in order to satisfy their curiosity and encourage them further – here are some more examples of kolams. All these kolam pictures (excepting 1 by me) are from Kamala’s Corner – Kolangal section, Created and/or curated by the very talented Kamala. Please visit her blog for step-by-step pictures on how to draw these beauties.She also has an amazing blog on Indian food do check it out

Knot Based Kolam

  
 Color Filled Dot – Grid based
 

Color filled Line based or Free Hand

Religious/Worship Based kolams or Yantras

http://kolangal.kamalascorner.com/2009/05/kolam-no173.html    

Occasion Specific Kolam

 

These examples barely scratch the possibilities that exist in this art form but I hope they would have given you a direction or a patch in which you could proceed. I would like to inform you that I have started to receive entries for the contest and will upload them midway through the contest. I am eagerly awaiting the other entriesLest you Forget – Here is the inspiration picture with the Color Palette


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  1. Cinnamon Jewellery avatar

    Beautiful designs and colours. I had a go at trying to draw one and it's not as easy as it looks!

  2. Divya N avatar

    Haaaa…the ones I have shown here are more complicated – intermediate to advance level. but basic kolams are easy. you just need to know how to make a grid with dots and join them with straight lines. you'll need practise to draw them without seeing the design