
Design facts
- Dot grid
- 9 to 9 dots — 9 rows of 9, 81 dots
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 4 min 3 s, uploaded 2 October 2019
- Views
- 673,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Dasara Special Rangoli Very Easy
- Mark the 9-to-9 dot grid — nine rows of nine dots in a square.
- In the centre draw a dot inside a small circle and ring it with four long pointed petals in a cross, with a short dash and a single dot in each petal.
- Enclose the cross in a scalloped outline of eight lobes — large ones on the four sides and small ones on the diagonals — and put a small pointed leaf inside each small diagonal lobe.
- On each of the four sides draw a trapezoid lamp base with its wide edge facing out.
- Beyond each lamp base draw three teardrop flames pointing outward.
- On each of the four corners draw a four-petal flower with heart-shaped petals around a dot-in-circle centre.
- Add a spiral curl on the outer side of each corner flower.
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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