Deepavali Kolam 7×1 Chinna

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 1 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Occasion

Diwali

Video

6 min 4 s, uploaded 6 October 2023

Views

9,244 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Deepavali Kolam 7×1 Chinna

1. Mark the 7-to-1 dot grid — a diamond of rows from seven dots in the middle down to one at each end.
2. On each of the four sides of the centre draw a bowl curving outward with three pointed petals pointing in toward the centre — four bowls in all.
3. Add veins to the four middle petals so they become large leaves meeting in the centre, with the side petals forming smaller leaves between them.
4. Fill the diagonal gap between each pair of bowls with nested arcs.
5. Outside each bowl draw a pair of facing spirals around a dot and crown them with a three-petal flower — four flowers in all.
6. On each diagonal add a small leaf and a sweeping vine that ends in a spiral curl beside a cluster of dots.

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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

• Grids, Lattices, and Thinking in Space
• Counting the Grid
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu
• Festivals and Rituals