Indian sandpainting

thumb|Traditional kolam made with rice flour and kaavi borders for a house function at Tamil Nadu, India|260x260px thumb|upright=0.9|Traditional Agrahara kolam made with soaked rice flour or coloured rice for the festival of [[Thai Pongal, taken from a house in Singapore]] Kolam (, ), also known as Muggu (), Tarai Alangaram () and Rangole (), is a form of traditional decorative art that is drawn by using rice flour as per age-old conventions. It is also drawn using white stone powder, chalk or chalk powder, often along with natural or synthetic color powders. It is a part of the South Indian c