5×1 Side Simple Rangoli Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

5 to 1 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Difficulty

Easy

Video

2 min 33 s, uploaded 6 May 2023

Views

3,799 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 5×1 Side Simple Rangoli Designs

1. Mark the 5-to-1 dot grid.
2. In the centre draw four long pointed petals in a cross — up, down, left and right — meeting at the middle, with an S-curl inside each.
3. In each gap between the long petals draw a rounded petal with a single stamen line tipped with a dot.
4. Cap the tip of each long petal with a small pointed bud holding a fan of lines tipped with dots.
5. Flank each bud with a pair of spiral curls.
6. On the four diagonals draw a small flower of three pointed leaves around a dot, with curling tendrils tipped with dots.
7. Shade the diagonal leaves lightly with powder.

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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

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