Despite the fact that the rice-flour examples are stenciled as the year progressed, it is amid the month of Margazhi that they are generally grand.
The droning from a far off sanctuary was the main sound on a something else still winter morning in Chennai. The heavenly Tamil month of music and commitment, Margazhi, had started – and consistently, in the early hours, melody and petition would bind the cool morning air.
At the beginning of the day, Anuradha Suresh ventured out of her loft working at Alwarpet, in Central Chennai, with a tin of white powder in her grasp. Settling down at the passage of the working with the powder squeezed between her fingers, she drew a few lines of dabs on the ground. In matter of minutes, an example developed as her deft strokes of powder bungled through the specks – joining a few, circling around others – to weave the mind boggling Margazhi kolam that sparkled in the morning daylight a brief time later.
A kolam by Anuradha Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
A kolam by Anuradha Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Consistently, from December 15 to January 15, Suresh, a homemaker, spends up to four hours each morning executing a customary kolam, some of the time as huge as six feet in distance across. "These thirty days are exceptionally uncommon for me," she said. "Despite the fact that I take quite a while with it, I feel upbeat while planning a kolam. I adore working outside in the crisp morning air."
Woven into the scientific computations that go into the workmanship are incalculable convictions about the centrality of kolam-production. Aside from its stylish esteem, the antiquated craft of planning a kolam on the doorstep is accepted to be an approach to welcome a particular god and also broad success into one's home. Since the powder, or at times a wet blend, is made of rice flour, it is likewise thought to be nourishment for ants and winged animals.
Indeed, even the symmetry of a kolam is clarified through conviction – a customary outline is made out of bended circles or geometric lines, each of which must be attracted to culmination. Shutting the kolam squares detestable spirits from entering the shapes, and typically, homes.
Customary kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Customary kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Despite the fact that Margazhi is the month for planning expansive kolams, numerous family units outline them all as the year progressed.
"Kolams are not only for magnificence," said Gayathri Shankarnarayan, a kolam master who is prevalently known as Kolam Gayathri. "Life is constantly loaded with issues. The spots are viewed as the issue and the lines are the arrangements."
Anuradha Suresh's Margazhi kolam. Picture Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
Anuradha Suresh's Margazhi kolam. Picture Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
A kolam that took Suresh more than four hours to make. Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
A kolam that took Suresh more than four hours to make. Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
Shankarnarayan included that the kolam was regularly used to find the condition of bliss in a family. "In towns even today, if there is a clean brilliant new kolam at the doorstep, neighbors instantly venture into discover what the uplifting news is," said Shankarnarayan. "A befuddled personality can't draw a straight line. Just in the event that you have adjust in your life, you can do as such."
This video instructional exercise makes an apparently complex Margazhi kolam look generally simple with only a couple strokes.
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Uma Raja, a kolam craftsman from Ramanathapuram close Madurai, thought that it was difficult to portray the remarkable feeling of fulfillment she felt amid the morning hours of kolam workmanship. "Amid Margazhi, somewhere around 4.30 and 6.30 am, i get a positive vibe while working," she said. "It's more than reflection or yoga. The whole day is so wonderful after that."
Uma Raja said that as a homemaker, this was the time when she was undisturbed and could give her work full focus. "I appreciate listening to the bhajans from the close-by sanctuary while making a kolam," she said. "It's a fabulous feeling."
Uma Raja has a Facebook page committed to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Uma Raja has a Facebook page committed to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Despite the fact that Raja's Margazhi kolams include exceptional exertion, she plans special kolams consistently and has been transferring pictures of them throughout the previous 15 years. "I get motivation from numerous different specialists on the web," said Raja. "In the previous two years, I have made no less than 850 interesting kolams."
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Gayathri Shankarnarayan clarified that each kolam bears the discernable style of a craftsman. Strangely, extraordinary groups crosswise over Tamil Nadu have their own particular marks as well. "The greater part of the kolams which are drawn utilizing specks, once in a while include complex numerical estimations, while planning and executing," she said. "These are known as the Karaikudi computation kolams. The Chettiar people group of Karaikudi, who outline these, are known to be greatly capable in arithmetic."
Shankarnarayan, who additionally judges various kolam rivalries over the city, said there are conventional guidelines for kolam outlining, which are every now and again twisted nowadays with the mixture of societies. The conventional kolam, she said, is done utilizing dabs or free-hand drawings of botanical plans. The main shading that is included is red-block powder, to convey shine to the plan.
"In any case, on the off chance that you attempt to draw Modi, or attempt topical plans of national security, sexual orientation issues or even demonetisation, it doesn't precisely fall into the section of Kolam craftsmanship," she said.
In any case, there are numerous specialists who have moved far from the customary examples to fuse crisp styles.
Mangalam Srinivasan's kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Mangalam Srinivasan's kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
For 51-year-old Mangalam Srinivasan, a homemaker in Srirangam, the month of Margazhi is the point at which she is most joyful. Despite the fact that she started making kolams utilizing conventional outlines, she is enlivened by pictures seen on the web, and regularly works for over eight hours to transform them into kolams.
Seeing their mom's ability, Srinivasan's girls made a Facebook page called My Mom's Art Gallery, where they transferred photos of her Margazhi kolams. The page right now has more than 55,000 preferences.
Goddess Bhuvaneshwari Amman by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Goddess Bhuvaneshwari Amman by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Srinivasan's 70-year-old mother Saroja Krishnaswamy is additionally a kolam craftsman who works with conventional plans.
"My grandma is very speedier than my mom at making kolams," said Aishwarya Srinivasan. "I would frequently be astounded by her. With regards to a circle or square, she would draw it so consummately. Not at all like in a scratch pad, it is difficult to draw it on the floor. In any case, my grandma is a fussbudget."
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's conventional kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's conventional kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Aishwarya Srinivasan said that her mom's specialty is totally not quite the same as the customary style, and fits in with the pattern of kolam-production that is in vogue nowadays. Their Facebook page has turned out to be so famous, she said, that they were even perceived by a few fans at an air terminal in the US.
In any case, Srinivasan is so drenched in her craft that she is totally careless in regards to the fandom around her work, as indicated by her little girl.
"Before Margazhi begins, she lets us know not to irritate her amid the month," said Aishwarya. "Margazhi is the time when she is totally given to God, through her kolams. She said that her discovers importance in her introduction to the world just through this."
Exceptional margazhi kolam outlines by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Exceptional margazhi kolam outlines by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Raja Ravi Varma's artwork 'Maharashtrian woman'. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Raja Ravi Varma's artwork 'Maharashtrian woman'. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
A tribute to previous Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery
A tribute to previous Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery
The droning from a far off sanctuary was the main sound on a something else still winter morning in Chennai. The heavenly Tamil month of music and commitment, Margazhi, had started – and consistently, in the early hours, melody and petition would bind the cool morning air.
At the beginning of the day, Anuradha Suresh ventured out of her loft working at Alwarpet, in Central Chennai, with a tin of white powder in her grasp. Settling down at the passage of the working with the powder squeezed between her fingers, she drew a few lines of dabs on the ground. In matter of minutes, an example developed as her deft strokes of powder bungled through the specks – joining a few, circling around others – to weave the mind boggling Margazhi kolam that sparkled in the morning daylight a brief time later.
A kolam by Anuradha Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
A kolam by Anuradha Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Consistently, from December 15 to January 15, Suresh, a homemaker, spends up to four hours each morning executing a customary kolam, some of the time as huge as six feet in distance across. "These thirty days are exceptionally uncommon for me," she said. "Despite the fact that I take quite a while with it, I feel upbeat while planning a kolam. I adore working outside in the crisp morning air."
Woven into the scientific computations that go into the workmanship are incalculable convictions about the centrality of kolam-production. Aside from its stylish esteem, the antiquated craft of planning a kolam on the doorstep is accepted to be an approach to welcome a particular god and also broad success into one's home. Since the powder, or at times a wet blend, is made of rice flour, it is likewise thought to be nourishment for ants and winged animals.
Indeed, even the symmetry of a kolam is clarified through conviction – a customary outline is made out of bended circles or geometric lines, each of which must be attracted to culmination. Shutting the kolam squares detestable spirits from entering the shapes, and typically, homes.
Customary kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Customary kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Despite the fact that Margazhi is the month for planning expansive kolams, numerous family units outline them all as the year progressed.
"Kolams are not only for magnificence," said Gayathri Shankarnarayan, a kolam master who is prevalently known as Kolam Gayathri. "Life is constantly loaded with issues. The spots are viewed as the issue and the lines are the arrangements."
Anuradha Suresh's Margazhi kolam. Picture Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
Anuradha Suresh's Margazhi kolam. Picture Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
A kolam that took Suresh more than four hours to make. Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
A kolam that took Suresh more than four hours to make. Credit: Gayathri Shankarnarayan
Shankarnarayan included that the kolam was regularly used to find the condition of bliss in a family. "In towns even today, if there is a clean brilliant new kolam at the doorstep, neighbors instantly venture into discover what the uplifting news is," said Shankarnarayan. "A befuddled personality can't draw a straight line. Just in the event that you have adjust in your life, you can do as such."
This video instructional exercise makes an apparently complex Margazhi kolam look generally simple with only a couple strokes.
Play
Uma Raja, a kolam craftsman from Ramanathapuram close Madurai, thought that it was difficult to portray the remarkable feeling of fulfillment she felt amid the morning hours of kolam workmanship. "Amid Margazhi, somewhere around 4.30 and 6.30 am, i get a positive vibe while working," she said. "It's more than reflection or yoga. The whole day is so wonderful after that."
Uma Raja said that as a homemaker, this was the time when she was undisturbed and could give her work full focus. "I appreciate listening to the bhajans from the close-by sanctuary while making a kolam," she said. "It's a fabulous feeling."
Uma Raja has a Facebook page committed to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Uma Raja has a Facebook page committed to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Despite the fact that Raja's Margazhi kolams include exceptional exertion, she plans special kolams consistently and has been transferring pictures of them throughout the previous 15 years. "I get motivation from numerous different specialists on the web," said Raja. "In the previous two years, I have made no less than 850 interesting kolams."
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Gayathri Shankarnarayan clarified that each kolam bears the discernable style of a craftsman. Strangely, extraordinary groups crosswise over Tamil Nadu have their own particular marks as well. "The greater part of the kolams which are drawn utilizing specks, once in a while include complex numerical estimations, while planning and executing," she said. "These are known as the Karaikudi computation kolams. The Chettiar people group of Karaikudi, who outline these, are known to be greatly capable in arithmetic."
Shankarnarayan, who additionally judges various kolam rivalries over the city, said there are conventional guidelines for kolam outlining, which are every now and again twisted nowadays with the mixture of societies. The conventional kolam, she said, is done utilizing dabs or free-hand drawings of botanical plans. The main shading that is included is red-block powder, to convey shine to the plan.
"In any case, on the off chance that you attempt to draw Modi, or attempt topical plans of national security, sexual orientation issues or even demonetisation, it doesn't precisely fall into the section of Kolam craftsmanship," she said.
In any case, there are numerous specialists who have moved far from the customary examples to fuse crisp styles.
Mangalam Srinivasan's kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Mangalam Srinivasan's kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
For 51-year-old Mangalam Srinivasan, a homemaker in Srirangam, the month of Margazhi is the point at which she is most joyful. Despite the fact that she started making kolams utilizing conventional outlines, she is enlivened by pictures seen on the web, and regularly works for over eight hours to transform them into kolams.
Seeing their mom's ability, Srinivasan's girls made a Facebook page called My Mom's Art Gallery, where they transferred photos of her Margazhi kolams. The page right now has more than 55,000 preferences.
Goddess Bhuvaneshwari Amman by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Goddess Bhuvaneshwari Amman by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Srinivasan's 70-year-old mother Saroja Krishnaswamy is additionally a kolam craftsman who works with conventional plans.
"My grandma is very speedier than my mom at making kolams," said Aishwarya Srinivasan. "I would frequently be astounded by her. With regards to a circle or square, she would draw it so consummately. Not at all like in a scratch pad, it is difficult to draw it on the floor. In any case, my grandma is a fussbudget."
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's conventional kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's conventional kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Aishwarya Srinivasan said that her mom's specialty is totally not quite the same as the customary style, and fits in with the pattern of kolam-production that is in vogue nowadays. Their Facebook page has turned out to be so famous, she said, that they were even perceived by a few fans at an air terminal in the US.
In any case, Srinivasan is so drenched in her craft that she is totally careless in regards to the fandom around her work, as indicated by her little girl.
"Before Margazhi begins, she lets us know not to irritate her amid the month," said Aishwarya. "Margazhi is the time when she is totally given to God, through her kolams. She said that her discovers importance in her introduction to the world just through this."
Exceptional margazhi kolam outlines by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Exceptional margazhi kolam outlines by Mangalam Srinivasan. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Raja Ravi Varma's artwork 'Maharashtrian woman'. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Raja Ravi Varma's artwork 'Maharashtrian woman'. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
A tribute to previous Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery
A tribute to previous Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery
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