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Rangoli art uses colored sand to decorate Indian floors

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Sweep your floors just to immediately cover them in colored dirt. Rangoli is the traditional Indian art of creating spectacular, sprawling geometric patterns on the ground using colored sand or rice flour, fully knowing that a stiff breeze or a careless footstep will destroy hours of painstaking labor instantly.

Rangoli art uses colored sand to decorate Indian floors
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