15 Se 1 Pongal Pot Kolam Colourful

Design facts

Video

6 min 26 s, uploaded 13 January 2019

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1.7 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 15 Se 1 Pongal Pot Kolam Colourful

1. Lay out the dot grid.
2. In the centre draw a four-petal flower with its petals on the diagonals around a dot.
3. From the flower run four striped sugarcane stalks — up, down, left and right — each ending in a tuft of curved leaves.
4. In the four spaces between the stalks draw four round pongal pots with their mouths pointing outward on the diagonals.
5. Fill each pot body with a criss-cross diamond lattice, a band of small ovals and a scalloped neck.
6. Heap each pot mouth with rows of rounded mounds of overflowing pongal above a wide rim.
7. On the top, bottom, left and right draw a lotus with its petals opening toward the centre and three pointed leaves on its outer side.
8. Colour the lotuses red with green leaves, the pongal heaps yellow and orange, and the lattices in bright blue, pink and green.

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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