Imaginary kolams
Submitted by rajapriyaks on Sun, 2011-01-30 07:54
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Lata mam,,just one small thought to share,,y dont u give us any dot pattern of your choice every month or so and make us to create imaginary kolam for that dot pattern,and you can rate select the most imaginative and good ones,,just for enjoyment
jkmrao
Sun, 2011-01-30 08:13
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It is a very good idea!
Regards! - mOhana
lakshmiraghu
Sun, 2011-01-30 08:24
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yes, lovely idea!!
lakshmiraghu
Sun, 2011-01-30 08:30
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Same method in mylapore festival also being followed for kids kolam drawing contest ..good thought
jayamohan
Sun, 2011-01-30 09:26
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'Aval Vikatan' was doing this till 'Kolam' serial was on the air!
ammuchandhini
Sun, 2011-01-30 18:18
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Great idea....
Dr.Rekha Shetty
Sun, 2011-01-30 19:44
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really great idea though i never tried to dot kolam(dotted).This time i may give a try
Lata
Sun, 2011-01-30 21:52
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Agreed! Great idea. I had read about this last year in the mylapore kids contest section (festival site) and had wanted to try it too, but never got to it. Let's get it started!
To keep it simple to begin with, could we try to make a kolam out of a 10x10 dotted one? I'll also post it separately where everyone could see, in the next couple of days.
rajapriyaks
Sun, 2011-01-30 22:33
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ok lata mam..once u upload the dot grid pattern,we will try to expand our imagination..:-)
judelined
Mon, 2011-01-31 02:29
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hmm - maybe I can take part now as I have some time to spare and have borrowed a friend's camera for a while
kameswari
Mon, 2011-01-31 03:08
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Great Idea.
umaraja
Mon, 2011-01-31 03:17
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fantastic idea, lets start yeh heh
Suguna Murugesan
Mon, 2011-01-31 04:00
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lata mam...why it is uploading my kolams? suguna murugesan
Suguna Murugesan
Mon, 2011-01-31 04:01
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dear lata mam ....why it is not uploading my kolams? suguna murugesan
bharathibhaskar
Mon, 2011-01-31 08:33
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I appreaciate da idea of rajapriyaks.i already started drawing on papers.soon i'l put rangolies n upload them.
Lata
Mon, 2011-01-31 08:42
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Dear Suges, I would like to know what message you get when you try to upload rangolis. I don't understand your problem completely when you say that you were not able to upload rangolis.
Lata
Mon, 2011-01-31 08:44
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Yay, Judy's back in action here! Can't wait to see what more she dishes out! I'm still waiting to finish the last piece from her square cake with white cream frosting.
vijaysowmya
Mon, 2011-01-31 09:02
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a very good idea...
rajamma_2
Mon, 2011-01-31 09:04
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10x10 dotted kolams coming on 'March past"? How many will get 10 out of 10 marks?
rajamma
Suguna Murugesan
Mon, 2011-01-31 10:33
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i want to share more my rangolis in ikolam but i am not able to upload the rangolis..... suguna murugesan
jkmrao
Mon, 2011-01-31 19:15
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I have created a 10x10 rangOli, but having problems in uploading. It is taking a long time attaching, but never finishes. I went back and tried two or three times, to no avail. The file is not big, just 165 kb. May be, I'll try tomorrow.
Regards! - mOhana
Dr.Rekha Shetty
Mon, 2011-01-31 20:56
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Lata maam please don't laugh .what u mean by 10x10.is it in the central line it contains 10 dots and total we will have 10 lines with reducing number of dots in each upper and lower line. Am i right? If no then please explain i want to try in paper at least one dotted kolam
Lata
Mon, 2011-01-31 21:15
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Hi Dr.Rekha,
There is nothing to laugh at here. I should've been more clear.
Let me share one of my example rangolis with you:
http://www.ikolam.com/node/199
In the link given above, you'd see a butterfly rangoli which was made with 10 rows of dots laid horizontally, in 10 vertical rows. The dots are placed in a parallel arrangement, and then the design gets drawn over it. That's what we mean by 10x10 dotted rangoli. I'm sorry if you thought it was a 10 feet by 10 feet rangoli. At least this is the way I had always written and tagged kolams in this site.
I also use a maximum and a minimum range for most kolams (11x1, or 21x1), in which case we are just giving a general idea of how big or small the size is, and how many dots a rangoli has in its widest area (in these cases the middle part has the maximum number and it tapers to either side and ends in a smaller number like 1, in the example I had used here). Again, this is just to give a basic idea and certainly not the only way to express the dot count of rangolis. My way of writing dots originates from the way we used to ask or talk about kolam sizes. For example, while attempting a 21x1 kolam, we used to say we're making a "21 dotted kolam", hence referring to the maximum number of dots used in a line.
Mahalakshmi, this isn't a contest so no stress.
smahalakshmi
Mon, 2011-01-31 21:11
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Great idea. When does this 10*10 contest starts?
Mahalakshmi
Dr.Rekha Shetty
Mon, 2011-01-31 21:33
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Hi Lata,
Thank you very much for explaining in simplified ,detailed way to do the kolam for beginners like me .How is ur headache ?r u still suffering from migraine pain?
Lata
Mon, 2011-01-31 21:34
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Migraine is gone Doctor, it is the usual flu now, and I'm managing fine.
But, I've a feeling I'll get the migraine back if you don't give out the answer to your riddle pretty soon. :0
jkmrao
Tue, 2011-02-01 00:24
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Still the same problem, can not upload. Have I reached space limit?
Regards! - mOhana
anirudh
Wed, 2011-02-09 22:10
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hi lata, me too having space issue?
getting the following error,
"the selected file rathasapthami.jpg can not be attached to this post, because the disk quota of 28 mb has been reached". please help