In spite of 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.
Amma and Raja Ravi Varma add an advanced wind to this Kolam season in South India
Picture credit: Uma Raja by means of Facebook
Dec 23, 2016 · 03:30 pm
Vinita Govindarajan
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The droning from an inaccessible sanctuary was the main sound on a something else still winter morning in Chennai. The sacred 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 condo working at Alwarpet, in Central Chennai, with a tin of white powder in her grasp. Settling down at the passageway of the working with the powder squeezed between her fingers, she drew a few columns of spots on the ground. In matter of minutes, an example rose as her deft strokes of powder mismatched through the specks – joining a few, circling around others – to weave the complex Margazhi kolam that shimmered 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 conventional kolam, in some cases as extensive as six feet in measurement. "These thirty days are exceptionally unique for me," she said. "Despite the fact that I take quite a while with it, I feel glad while planning a kolam. I cherish working outside in the crisp morning air."
Woven into the scientific estimations that go into the workmanship are endless convictions about the noteworthiness of kolam-production. Aside from its tasteful esteem, the old craft of outlining a kolam on the doorstep is accepted to be an approach to welcome a particular divinity and in addition general thriving into one's home. Since the powder, or now and again a wet blend, is made of rice flour, it is likewise thought to be nourishment for ants and feathered creatures.
Indeed, even the symmetry of a kolam is clarified through conviction – a conventional outline is made out of bended circles or geometric lines, each of which must be attracted to culmination. Shutting the kolam squares insidious spirits from entering the shapes, and typically, homes.
Conventional kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Conventional kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
In spite of 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 prominently known as Kolam Gayathri. "Life is constantly loaded with issues. The specks 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 splendid crisp kolam at the doorstep, neighbors promptly venture into discover what the uplifting news is," said Shankarnarayan. "A confounded 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 depict the exceptional 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 excellent after that."
Uma Raja said that as a homemaker, this was the time when she was undisturbed and could give her work full fixation. "I appreciate listening to the bhajans from the adjacent sanctuary while making a kolam," she said. "It's a phenomenal feeling."
Uma Raja has a Facebook page committed to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Uma Raja has a Facebook page devoted to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
In spite of the fact that Raja's Margazhi kolams include extraordinary exertion, she plans exceptional kolams consistently and has been transferring pictures of them throughout the previous 15 years. "I get motivation from numerous different craftsmen on the web," said Raja. "In the previous two years, I have made no less than 850 remarkable kolams."
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Gayathri Shankarnarayan clarified that each kolam bears the discernable style of a craftsman. Strikingly, unique groups crosswise over Tamil Nadu have their own marks as well. "The vast majority of the kolams which are drawn utilizing dabs, in some cases include complex scientific computations, while outlining and executing," she said. "These are known as the Karaikudi count kolams. The Chettiar people group of Karaikudi, who outline these, are known to be amazingly capable in arithmetic."
Shankarnarayan, who additionally judges various kolam rivalries over the city, said there are customary principles for kolam outlining, which are habitually twisted nowadays with the implantation of societies. The customary kolam, she said, is done utilizing specks or free-hand drawings of botanical plans. The main shading that is included is red-block powder, to convey splendor to the plan.
"In any case, in the event that you attempt to draw Modi, or attempt topical outlines of national security, sex issues or even demonetisation, it doesn't precisely fall into the section of Kolam craftsmanship," she said.
In any case, there are numerous craftsmen who have moved far from the conventional examples to fuse new 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. In spite of the fact that she started making kolams utilizing conventional outlines, she is enlivened by pictures seen on the web, and frequently works for over eight hours to transform them into kolams.
Seeing their mom's ability, Srinivasan's little girls made a Facebook page called My Mom's Art Gallery, where they transferred photos of her Margazhi kolams. The page presently 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 likewise a kolam craftsman who works with customary plans.
"My grandma is quite quicker 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 flawlessly. Not at all like in a journal, it is difficult to draw it on the floor. However, my grandma is a fussbudget."
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's customary kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's customary kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Aishwarya Srinivasan said that her mom's craft 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 prominent, she said, that they were even perceived by a few fans at an air terminal in the US.
In any case, Srinivasan is so inundated in her specialty that she is totally unmindful of the fandom around her work, as indicated by her little girl.
"Before Margazhi begins, she lets us know not to bother her amid the month," said Aishwarya. "Margazhi is the time when she is totally committed to God, through her kolams. She said that her discovers significance in her introduction to the world just through this."
Amma and Raja Ravi Varma add an advanced wind to this Kolam season in South India
Picture credit: Uma Raja by means of Facebook
Dec 23, 2016 · 03:30 pm
Vinita Govindarajan
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The droning from an inaccessible sanctuary was the main sound on a something else still winter morning in Chennai. The sacred 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 condo working at Alwarpet, in Central Chennai, with a tin of white powder in her grasp. Settling down at the passageway of the working with the powder squeezed between her fingers, she drew a few columns of spots on the ground. In matter of minutes, an example rose as her deft strokes of powder mismatched through the specks – joining a few, circling around others – to weave the complex Margazhi kolam that shimmered 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 conventional kolam, in some cases as extensive as six feet in measurement. "These thirty days are exceptionally unique for me," she said. "Despite the fact that I take quite a while with it, I feel glad while planning a kolam. I cherish working outside in the crisp morning air."
Woven into the scientific estimations that go into the workmanship are endless convictions about the noteworthiness of kolam-production. Aside from its tasteful esteem, the old craft of outlining a kolam on the doorstep is accepted to be an approach to welcome a particular divinity and in addition general thriving into one's home. Since the powder, or now and again a wet blend, is made of rice flour, it is likewise thought to be nourishment for ants and feathered creatures.
Indeed, even the symmetry of a kolam is clarified through conviction – a conventional outline is made out of bended circles or geometric lines, each of which must be attracted to culmination. Shutting the kolam squares insidious spirits from entering the shapes, and typically, homes.
Conventional kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
Conventional kolam craftsmanship by Suresh. Picture Credit: Ramaswamy Narayanan
In spite of 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 prominently known as Kolam Gayathri. "Life is constantly loaded with issues. The specks 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 splendid crisp kolam at the doorstep, neighbors promptly venture into discover what the uplifting news is," said Shankarnarayan. "A confounded 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 depict the exceptional 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 excellent after that."
Uma Raja said that as a homemaker, this was the time when she was undisturbed and could give her work full fixation. "I appreciate listening to the bhajans from the adjacent sanctuary while making a kolam," she said. "It's a phenomenal feeling."
Uma Raja has a Facebook page committed to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Uma Raja has a Facebook page devoted to her kolams. Picture Credit: Uma Raja
In spite of the fact that Raja's Margazhi kolams include extraordinary exertion, she plans exceptional kolams consistently and has been transferring pictures of them throughout the previous 15 years. "I get motivation from numerous different craftsmen on the web," said Raja. "In the previous two years, I have made no less than 850 remarkable kolams."
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Picture Credit: Uma Raja
Gayathri Shankarnarayan clarified that each kolam bears the discernable style of a craftsman. Strikingly, unique groups crosswise over Tamil Nadu have their own marks as well. "The vast majority of the kolams which are drawn utilizing dabs, in some cases include complex scientific computations, while outlining and executing," she said. "These are known as the Karaikudi count kolams. The Chettiar people group of Karaikudi, who outline these, are known to be amazingly capable in arithmetic."
Shankarnarayan, who additionally judges various kolam rivalries over the city, said there are customary principles for kolam outlining, which are habitually twisted nowadays with the implantation of societies. The customary kolam, she said, is done utilizing specks or free-hand drawings of botanical plans. The main shading that is included is red-block powder, to convey splendor to the plan.
"In any case, in the event that you attempt to draw Modi, or attempt topical outlines of national security, sex issues or even demonetisation, it doesn't precisely fall into the section of Kolam craftsmanship," she said.
In any case, there are numerous craftsmen who have moved far from the conventional examples to fuse new 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. In spite of the fact that she started making kolams utilizing conventional outlines, she is enlivened by pictures seen on the web, and frequently works for over eight hours to transform them into kolams.
Seeing their mom's ability, Srinivasan's little girls made a Facebook page called My Mom's Art Gallery, where they transferred photos of her Margazhi kolams. The page presently 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 likewise a kolam craftsman who works with customary plans.
"My grandma is quite quicker 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 flawlessly. Not at all like in a journal, it is difficult to draw it on the floor. However, my grandma is a fussbudget."
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's customary kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Saroja Krishnamoorthy's customary kolam. Credit: My Mom's Art Gallery/Facebook
Aishwarya Srinivasan said that her mom's craft 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 prominent, she said, that they were even perceived by a few fans at an air terminal in the US.
In any case, Srinivasan is so inundated in her specialty that she is totally unmindful of the fandom around her work, as indicated by her little girl.
"Before Margazhi begins, she lets us know not to bother her amid the month," said Aishwarya. "Margazhi is the time when she is totally committed to God, through her kolams. She said that her discovers significance in her introduction to the world just through this."
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