Basic Diya Rangoli Designs With 5 to 1 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

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

Structure

Dot-Grid

Motif

Diya

Difficulty

Easy

Video

3 min 11 s, uploaded 4 November 2021

Views

17,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Basic Diya Rangoli Designs With 5 to 1 Dots

1. Mark the 5-to-1 dot grid.
2. Draw two large diya bowls side by side with their rims meeting in the centre, and place a small three-petal bud where they join.
3. Above the join draw a smaller diya with a teardrop flame, and add a teardrop flame on the outer tip of each large diya; edge every flame with dots.
4. Inside each large bowl add a spiral curl beside the bud and run a line of dots under each rim.
5. Below the bowls draw a curved band filled with a row of dots, and sweep it out on each side into a large scroll ending in a spiral.
6. Under the centre draw a large veined leaf pointing down, flanked on each side by pointed petals and spiral curls to form a lotus base.
7. Finish with a small looped stem below the leaf tip.

Related designs

• Very Easy 5 Dots Designs Kolam
• Muggulu Easy for Beginners
• Traditional Pulli 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

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