7 Dots Simple Beginners Rangoli

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 4 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 4

Structure

Dot-Grid

Difficulty

Beginner

Video

2 min 48 s, uploaded 23 September 2019

Views

309,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 7 Dots Simple Beginners Rangoli

1. Mark the 7-to-4 dot grid.
2. Join the dots into a lattice of triangles and put a small star of short radiating strokes at the centre where the lines cross.
3. At the top draw two pointed petals in a V, each with a spiral inside, and set a teardrop with a spiral between them.
4. On the left and right draw an outward-pointing petal with a spiral, with a spiral teardrop just inside each one.
5. On the lower left and lower right draw a downward petal with a spiral, and tip the outer petals with short strokes.
6. Below the centre add a plain pointed petal pointing down, and on the upper left and upper right add two plain outer petals.
7. Fill the upper side triangles and the band below the centre star with diagonal hatching.

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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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