Design facts
- Dot grid
- 6 to 2 dots — tapering from 6 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Occasion
- Daily
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 3 min 9 s, uploaded 14 November 2019
- Views
- 1.6 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Daily Simple Small Rangoli 6x2x2dots Kolam
- Mark the 6-to-2 dot grid.
- Draw five small flowers in a cross — one in the centre and one above, below, left and right of it — each of four almond petals in a plus shape, every petal enclosing two dots.
- Between the petals of each outer flower draw four short diagonal strokes, turning it into an eight-ray star.
- Join the centre flower to its four neighbours with curved lines that bulge out on the diagonals, forming a four-lobed frame around it.
- Around the three outer sides of each outer flower draw a heart-shaped petal over each almond petal, so the four outer flowers read as clovers.
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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