![diwali-rangoli-b4.jpg](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/diwali-rangoli-b4.jpg)
At this moment I am exactly doing rangoli.
Rangoli is called painted prayers of India.
![diwali-rangoli-b30.jpg](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/diwali-rangoli-b30.jpg)
![diwali-rangoli-b18.jpg](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/diwali-rangoli-b18.jpg)
![alpana.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/alpana.gif)
I am doing rangoli since I was a kid. When I was a kid we had a raised platform in the courtyard especially made for rangoli. We used to buy permanent paints (samples used to come in small amounts) and used to take 2-3 days to make rangolis all over house at different places. We never used to get tired. I still do it but now with flowers or powder colours.
![diwali-rangoli-b11.jpg](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/diwali-rangoli-b11.jpg)
![plain-rangoli.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/plain-rangoli.gif)
All over India rangoli is done at different festivals or even on everyday basis and has different names such as Alpana in West Bengal, Kolam in south etc.
![rangoli5.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/rangoli5.gif)
![nt2.jpg](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/nt2.jpg)
![rangolidessin2.jpg](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/rangolidessin2.jpg)
![diwali-rangoli-b7.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/diwali-rangoli-b7.gif)
![arts-b.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/arts-b.gif)
from Bangladesh
![alpanastepbystep.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/alpanastepbystep-150x150.gif)
please click to enlarge to see stepwise alpana
Here are some sites with beautiful patterne , info & how-tos…
Animation of a rangoli design.
Some beautiful rangoli designs.
Tips and rangoli designs.
more rangoli patterns.
![kolam.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/kolam.gif)
Tomorrow is diwali and I wish I had more time to do this post on my favourite art & craft but… (maybe…no Iwill definitely do a region wise post again on this topic), (& if my fellow bloggers have done a post on same topic I would add their links later.)
via: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.