Dotted kolam

Hi friends. This is my another Rangoli. The dots are 21 - 11.

This one was made by my friend thought i will share it with you all.

Simple 13-1 straight dotted kolam with my favourite lavender/ green color make up.Kids said there are so many 'V' in this so named it"V" kolam.(I expect 8 out of ten marks for this and hinted it in the kolam also).

This is an important (to me) dotted rangOli. many of you may remember I introduced sona patterns some time ago (see my blog http://www.ikolam.com/node/7295 and my rangOlis too). When there is only one colour for the rectangular pattern, there are two colours for the sona square. I was for a long time wondering whether I could construct a sona hexagon. At last I did. I took a 3 X 2 sona pattern (in cyan right bottom) and from that constructed a sona hexagon which has, like sona square, only two colours. This is a very important pattern. Most of the chikku kOlmas are drawn for dots in a square grid. But I have shown that we can draw such a pattern for hexagonal grid too (shown on top left as a guide). When rangOlis are drawn on hexagonal grids, three lines meet at a point. In this rangOli, there is a chikku triangle. Look at how the lines go up and down as in the square chikku kOlmas. I will at some time demonstrate this with strings for better understanding. Please study this pattern carefully when you try to draw on the floor or do an embroidery. Enjoy!

Regards! - mOhana