
Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 1 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 1
- Occasion
- Daily
- Video
- 2 min 18 s, uploaded 3 May 2022
- Views
- 8,990 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Daily Small Rangoli Designs
- Mark a small diamond-shaped dot grid of straight rows around a centre dot.
- Draw four long pointed petals around the centre — one above, below, left and right — each enclosing a single dot.
- In the centre draw a small diamond around the centre dot and frame it with a four-pointed star of inward-curving double lines.
- Turn each petal into a lotus by drawing an inner petal line inside it and a curved side petal on each side of its base.
- On each diagonal sweep a curved paisley leaf outward from the side of a lotus in a pinwheel, fill it with a row of dots and add a spiral curl at its base.
- Finish the top and bottom lotus tips with a cluster of three small loops.
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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