11-6 Sankranthi New Kolam Patterns

Design facts

Dot grid

11 to 6 dots — tapering from 11 dots across the middle down to 6

Video

5 min 21 s, uploaded 8 December 2018

Views

118,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 11-6 Sankranthi New Kolam Patterns

1. Mark a large dot grid of staggered rows.
2. In the centre place a dot and draw six long pointed petals around it — a short pair pointing up and down and two longer pairs slanting out to the sides.
3. Fill the gaps between the petals with a ring of small rounded scale tiles.
4. Build outward in rows of rounded scale tiles to form a six-lobed star — pointed lobes at the left and right and broad scaled lobes above and below on each side.
5. Above and below the star draw a lotus bud of layered petals rising from two long sweeping leaves — pointing up at the top and down at the bottom.
6. On each of the four diagonals draw a layered lotus bud with a long sweeping leaf, angled away from the centre.
7. Colour the centre petals pink, purple and olive around a green dot, the inner tiles blue, the star tiles orange and the lotus buds magenta and pink, then re-trace the outlines in white.

Related designs

• Star Kolam Designs With 11 Into 6 Dots
• Rose Flowers Muggulu With 11 to 6 Dots
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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