15 Dots Colourful Kolam

Design facts

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Video

5 min 39 s, uploaded 4 December 2018

Views

151,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 15 Dots Colourful Kolam

1. Mark a hexagonal dot grid with interlaced rows.
2. In the centre draw a six-petal flower of pointed petals around a dot, colouring opposite petals alike in red, orange and purple with a yellow centre.
3. Around the flower draw a six-pointed star with notched edges and fill it blue.
4. Around the star draw six rose buds in a hexagon, each with layered cupped petals, colouring opposite buds alike in crimson, purple and orange.
5. Give each bud a green three-pointed calyx on its outer side and a pointed green leaf on each flank.
6. Place a yellow dot in each of the six gaps between the buds.
7. Re-trace every outline in white.

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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