12 to 4 Dots Flower Pot Rangoli

Design facts

Dot grid

12 to 4 dots — tapering from 12 dots across the middle down to 4

Structure

Dot-Grid

Motif

Pot

Video

8 min 25 s, uploaded 29 August 2020

Views

1.4 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 12 to 4 Dots Flower Pot Rangoli

1. Mark the 12-to-4 dot grid — rows tapering from 12 in the middle down to 4 at each end.
2. In the centre draw a small four-petal flower with a small circle at its heart and a dot on a short stalk between each pair of petals.
3. Around it draw four large four-petal flowers — top, bottom, left and right — each with a small circle at the centre and two short dashes on every petal.
4. Beyond each large flower draw a bowl-shaped pot cradling it with a spiral curl at each end, and set a small fan of petals inside the rims of the top and left pots.
5. Between each pair of neighbouring flowers run a curving stem in towards the centre and curl a pair of spirals off it.
6. On each of the four diagonals draw a large pointed tulip-shaped cup with a leaf drawn inside it.

Related designs

• Muggulu Designs With 12×4 Dots
• Pulli Kolam 12 Dots
• 12 to 4 Dots Kolam

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

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• Grids, Lattices, and Thinking in Space
• Counting the Grid
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