Rangoli-artistic creation of a homemaker on the floor

Many a house hold wakes up in the morning,to the swooshing sound of the lady using a broom made from the reeds of a coconut palm leaf,to sweep the front porch of the home.she then waters the area enough to make it just damp,then makes an artistic design of a rangoli for the day.

Earlier rice powder was used to make the rangoli designs,now things have changed to using mineral powders of stone and bricks.

In some festival seasons,the women folks take pains to do patterns richly woven, with dots and ziz zag patters,at other times they use colored powders, to enrich the designs they have made.

Recently we had a chance to see a few patterns when a competition was conducted for a few streets on an auspicious Ekadesi day in which many households took part .

There was one designer who used flowery petals and lighted lamps for the evening competition and won the hearts and the prizes.

This is a simple doing which exposes the artistic talent of a village damsel.