4 Dots Kutti Chitti Kolams Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

4 to 4 dots — 4 rows of 4, 16 dots

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Video

2 min 43 s, uploaded 5 April 2020

Views

37,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 4 Dots Kutti Chitti Kolams Designs

1. Mark the 4 to 4 dot grid — four rows of four dots.
2. Through the grid draw a pinwheel of straight lines — four right-angled arms all turning the same way around the centre.
3. Draw a second line beside each arm so the pinwheel becomes four interlocking square-cornered bands.
4. In the centre draw a four-petal flower with a small dot between each pair of petals.
5. At each of the four middle edges draw a pointed teardrop bud facing outward with a spiral curl inside it and a small three-line tuft at its tip.
6. In each of the four corners draw a lobed leaf pointing outward with a small dotted teardrop petal on either side of it.
7. Re-trace the outlines in white.

Related designs

• Special Small Deepam Kolam With Dots 4
• Simple Muggulu With 4×4 Dots
• Deepavali Simple 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

Read more

• Grids, Lattices, and Thinking in Space
• Counting the Grid
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu