Rangoli:

Rangoli Kits

Rangoli Kit

This kit contains sufficient supplies to complete a Rangoli pattern for inside your home, your yard, porch or where ever you choose to make a personal to large size Rangoli. The kit includes rice flour, blue cornmeal, Rangoli powders in 4 colors (four 100 gram packs), carrot bags, instructions for creating your unique Rangoli and a design sheets with patterns to follow. These are all the supplies you will need to get started.

$30.00

Rangoli Companion Kit

Your Companion Kit will include 2 additional Rangoli powder colors, graham flour, 2 tea candles, hibiscus and lavender flowers. (Throughout the year we may substitute the herbs and flowers included in this kit for other herbs, flowers and berries, depending upon season and availability. But you will always receive something beautiful for your Rangoli.) This is a great addition to your Rangoli Kit and is highly recommended for more elaborate designs and most special places and occasions.

$18.00

For even more fun things to add to your Rangoli, our list of Natural Dyes is also a source for herbs and flowers that will work perfectly in your Rangoli...Rose Petals and Buds...Marigold flowers.

OK...So what the heck is RANGOLI?

RANGOLI is another way of creating a sacred space with symbols within your home, on your porch, in your yard etc. designed to focus your prayers and intentions. Rangoli is a tradition in India that is similar to other traditions in other countries and cultures that call for the creation of a basic or elaborate pattern (often very similar to a henna pattern) using rice flour and colored powders, flowers, herbs and spices etc., on a surface like ground or an altar.

The rangoli is the locus for the sacred. You can bring incense, offerings, prayers, music, meditation, pictures, candles...to this place. It's the creation a small prayer space... a space made sacred by its intended purpose... by its role in the lives of the people creating and utilizing the space. The elements and small creatures reclaim the rangoli made outside.

Rangoli may be danced into the ground under the feet of dancers and drummers. Rangoli may be walked into the houses and out of the court yard of its creator by visitors and family members. Rangoli may be removed from a small alter each night and replaced with another at the dawn of each new day. Rangoli goes through a daily cycle of creation and destruction... birth and death... beginnings and endings... old and new and old again... as the intent of the prayer is offered and accepted. Rangoli are a wonderful way of celebrating, acknowledging and honoring dynamics of life...the spiritual... the domains... and the wonderment of the inevitability of the cycles that exists within cycles and are part of cycles that are part of cycles... That teach us about beginnings and endings and renewals and opportunities for redemption...

Send mail to rangoli@everydayhenna.com for further instructions and information on Rangoli.

Here are some pictures of Rangoli patterns from http://www.fashionindia.net/reviews/2000/october_2000/diwali1.htm:

More Rangoli patterns can be found at: http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/rangoli/rangani.htm

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