Attractive Unique Rangoli Design

Design facts

Dot grid

12 to 2 dots — tapering from 12 dots across the middle down to 2

Video

4 min 5 s, uploaded 20 October 2019

Views

8,030 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Attractive Unique Rangoli Design

1. Mark the 12-to-2 dot grid.
2. In the centre draw a flower with a spiral heart and four rounded petals marked with short strokes.
3. At the top, bottom, left and right draw an X whose four arms end in heart-shaped petals.
4. Across each X add a plus of short spokes, each tipped with a dot.
5. On each of the four diagonals draw a bow-tie of two triangles meeting tip to tip.
6. Between each bow-tie and the centre flower draw a small teardrop leaf edged with a row of dots.

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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