21×11 Chukki Rangoli Designs On Paper

Design facts

Dot grid

21 to 11 dots — tapering from 21 dots across the middle down to 11

Structure

Dot-Grid

Video

5 min 10 s, uploaded 5 November 2019

Views

29,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 21×11 Chukki Rangoli Designs On Paper

1. Mark the 21-to-11 dot grid — the middle row of 21 dots, rows stepping down to 11 at the top and bottom.
2. In the centre draw a pinwheel flower — six curved petals swirling around a small hexagon of dots.
3. Draw six more of the same pinwheel flowers in a ring around the centre one, one in each of the six directions.
4. Between the centre pinwheel and each outer one draw a notched block — a box whose inner edge dips in a V — with a small pointed leaf inside the notch.
5. Between each neighbouring pair of outer pinwheels draw a small diamond holding a dot, and fill the gaps near the edge with small triangles.
6. Join the remaining dots with straight lattice lines, enclose everything in a scalloped ring of arcs, and draw each pinwheel in a different marker colour with the small triangles filled in light blue.

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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