Birds Kolam Design Simple Steps

Design facts

Dot grid

10 to 10 dots — 10 rows of 10, 100 dots

Tradition

Kolam

Difficulty

Easy

Video

4 min 10 s, uploaded 10 October 2019

Views

1.8 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Birds Kolam Design Simple Steps

1. Mark the 10-to-10 square dot grid — ten rows of ten dots.
2. In the centre draw an eight-pointed star — two upright and two flat lines crossed by diagonals — with a small circle and dot in its middle.
3. In each of the four quarters around the star draw a bird with a round eye, a pointed beak and a raised wing — four birds in all.
4. Draw a spiral curl on each bird's wing.
5. On each of the four corners draw the bird's half-round fan tail, set off by a straight line and filled with parallel stripes.

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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

Read more

• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu