How is the festival kolam different from the daily one?

It is drawn the same way, in white rice-flour lines, but it is larger and filled with brighter colour for the festival days.

What is Mattu Pongal?

The day of the Pongal festival when cattle are honoured, and the kolam shows a decorated cow with horns painted blue and red.

What is the difference between the three styles?

Rice flour fills chalky colour inside unbroken white lines on dark earth; village lane shows a swept lane with a painted doorstep; festival poster uses thick outlines and flat colour on black.

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Pongal kolam with colour: a Pongal pot, a Mattu Pongal cow, a sun

Pongal colour kolam — a coloured kolam of a clay pot decorated with turmeric leaves, boiling over with white rice, two crossed sugarcane stalks behind it, filled in red, yellow and green inside white rice-flour lines, unbroken white rice-flour lines drawn freehand, thin and even, the colour filled in just inside them in chalky powder

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In Tamil Nadu the Pongal kolam is drawn in white rice flour, then filled with colour for the festival days, larger and brighter than the daily one. These nine show three festival subjects: a boiling Pongal pot with sugarcane, a decorated cow for Mattu Pongal, and a sun with sugarcane and turmeric. Each is shown on a village lane or as a festival poster. Type a subject, such as a rooster, to ask for it.

a doorway on Pongal morning
a courtyard on Mattu Pongal
a festival poster for a community hall

Frequently asked questions

How is the festival kolam different from the daily one?: It is drawn the same way, in white rice-flour lines, but it is larger and filled with brighter colour for the festival days.
What is Mattu Pongal?: The day of the Pongal festival when cattle are honoured, and the kolam shows a decorated cow with horns painted blue and red.
What is the difference between the three styles?: Rice flour fills chalky colour inside unbroken white lines on dark earth; village lane shows a swept lane with a painted doorstep; festival poster uses thick outlines and flat colour on black.

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