WHAT IS RANGOLI?

Rangoli- that literally means ‘layers of colors’ – is a traditional folk art from India. It is a form of a Yantra that is meant to welcome guests and positive energies. The first reference to a Rangoli can be found in ‘Chitralakshana’ – the earliest Indian treatise on painting. Rangoli is common to the whole of Indian and is known by different names in different parts of the country - Alpana in Bengal, Aripana in Bihar, Madana in Rajasthan, Rangoli in Gujarat and Maharashtra, Chowkpurana in Uttar Pradesh and Kolam in South India. Rangolis are usually drawn to decorate courtyards and walls of Indian houses, and places of worship. Women draw them, after a ritualistic cleaning of the house. The powder of white stone, lime, rice flour and other cheap paste is used to draw intricate and ritual designs. Sometimes colors and petals are also Used. Women use their bare fingers as brushes to draw the patterns. The designs are symbolic and common to the entire country, and can include natural motifs, animal images and geometrical patterns, with lines, dots, squares, circles, Triangles; the swastika, lotus, trident, fish, conch shell, footprints (supposed to be of goddess Lakshmi),

HOW IS RANGOLI MADE?

While making the Rangoli, the most important ingredient is the powder. The powder with which you make the Rangoli could be gulal/aabir. Gulal is the powder which is generally used during the time of the festival of Holi. The powder is a thin pigmented powder which is usually made from rice but could also be made from other cereals as well the colors used to be natural colors which were derived from natural sources like the bark of a tree, leaves and the flowers. Pise rice solution, dried powder made from the leaves color, charcoal, burned soil was, wood sawdust, etc. Rangoli is made in two ways. Dry and wet

WHERE ? (REGIONS)

Rangoli art is an adornment or decoration that has different names in the different provinces of India. Uttar Pradesh in the square Purna, Rajasthan in the Mmandn, Bihar in the Aripan, Bengal Alpana in, Maharashtra in the their homes on the door in the morning so create an evil force in the house so that they could not enter, Rangavallie in Karnataka, Kollam in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh in the Muggu or Muggulu, HP ‘Aroopn’, Kumaon in the Alikhthap or Thapa, the Kerala in the Kolam, Gujarat in Saathiyo. Maharashtra Rangoli their homes on the door in the morning so create an evil force in the house so that they could not enter. South Indian Province - Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the ‘column’ is some margin but their basics are unchanged. These are decorated in geometric and symmetrical mulyataha sizes. For rice flour or slurry is used. The back of the rice flour used to be white and easy availability.

PROBLEM AREAS IDENTIFIED

IGNORANCE IN PRESERVING THIS

CULTURAL ART | ELITE CLASS FINDS

THIS ART AS LOW STANDARD |

REMAINS OF COLOR ON HAND | MIGHT

CAUSE SKIN PROBLEMS.

STORAGE | TRANSPORTATION |

PORTABILITY | TRANSFERRING INTO

ANOTHER CONTAINERS | MIXING OF

COLORS IN THE CONTAINER | SPILLAGE

TEARING | PRICKS | TAMPERING |

Design parameters

DESIGN SHOULD BE

COMPACT | EASY TO REFILL |

TRANPERENCY | STORAGE AS WELL AS

TOOL | ERGONOMICALLY

COMFORTABLE | EASY TO USE FOR A

BEGINNER

TARGET AUDIENCE

ELITE CLASS

BRAND FREAKS

EXPORT PURPOSE

MATERIAL SELECTION

ECO-FRIENDLY | RECYCLEABLE | FIRM

& STURDY | EASY TO MANUFACTURE |

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