7 Into 4 Dots Two New Kolams

Design facts

Dot grid

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

Structure

Sikku/Interlaced

Tradition

Kolam, Sikku Kolam

Video

7 min 53 s, uploaded 20 July 2021

Views

21,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 7 Into 4 Dots Two New Kolams

1. Mark the 7-to-4 dot grid.
2. Around the centre draw six three-petal fans opening in towards the centre — one at the top, one at the bottom and two on each side.
3. In the centre draw a flower with a line radiating into each petal, then ring it with six rounded petals, each holding a spiral.
4. Wrap each fan in a pair of pointed leaves and draw a vein line in each fan petal.
5. At the tip of each of the six arms draw a rose — a spiral centre ringed with scalloped petals — and shade the petals.
6. Fill the gaps between the arms with small curling scrolls.

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Further reading

• Shojiro Nagata, “How Many Loops Kolam Loop Pattern Consists of”, Forma 30, 9–18 (2015). doi:10.5047/forma.2015.003
• 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

• The Loop-Pattern Family
• The One-Line Problem: Euler and the Kolam
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu