Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 3 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 3
- Video
- 10 min 16 s, uploaded 8 March 2021
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- 38,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Different Type of Rangoli
- Mark the 7 to 3 dot grid — a middle row of 7 shrinking to 3 at the top and bottom.
- Above, below, left and right of the centre dot draw a four-loop flower — four pointed loops meeting at a dot — and inside each loop draw a short line ending in a dot.
- Join the inner loops of the four flowers with a square of inward-curving sides and draw a small daisy — a dot ringed by tiny petals — in its middle.
- Behind each loop flower, on its outer side, draw a lotus crown — a tall pointed centre petal with a curved petal on each side — and double its outlines.
- On each of the four diagonals draw a small five-petal flower with a small ring at its centre and flank it with spiral curls.
- Edge the arcs between the crowns with rows of dots and go over all the outlines in white.
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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