Design facts
- Dot grid
- 21 to 11 dots — tapering from 21 dots across the middle down to 11
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Video
- 9 min 18 s, uploaded 8 February 2024
- Views
- 17,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 21 To 11 Beautiful Rangoli
- Mark the 21-to-11 dot grid — a hexagon-shaped field of dots.
- In the centre draw a six-petal flower with pointed petals.
- Around it draw a ring of six six-petal flowers, one toward each corner of the hexagon, and join each one to the centre flower with a straight line so six spokes radiate from the middle.
- Link the six outer flowers with a curving outline that loops into a pointed leaf between the flowers on each side and meets in a point at the top centre and the bottom centre.
- On each of the six corners of the hexagon draw a chevron-shaped border bracket with a small half-loop tucked inside its angle.
- Trace the centre flower and the brackets in pink, the outer flowers in green and the linking lines in blue.
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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