11-5 Dots Kolam in Front of Home

Design facts

Dot grid

11 to 5 dots — tapering from 11 dots across the middle down to 5

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Video

4 min 8 s, uploaded 24 November 2019

Views

5,751 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 11-5 Dots Kolam in Front of Home

1. Mark the 11-to-5 dot grid.
2. Above, below and to each side of the centre draw a large three-lobed flower pointing inward — a heart-shaped middle lobe between two rounded side lobes.
3. Fill each big flower with spirals in the side lobes, a teardrop curl in the middle and a small fan of lines at its pointed base.
4. In the centre draw a four-petal flower with heart-shaped petals around a small ring.
5. On the diagonals between the big flowers draw small three-petal buds dotted inside, opening toward the centre.
6. Behind each bud sweep a long crescent leaf curving around the outside of the pattern.

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Further reading

• Venkatraman Gopalan & Brian K. VanLeeuwen, “A topological approach to creating any pulli kolam, an artform from South India”, Forma 30, 35–41 (2015). doi:10.5047/forma.2015.005

Read more

• Grids, Lattices, and Thinking in Space
• Counting the Grid
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu