Easy Daily Rangolis With 9×1

Design facts

Dot grid

9 to 1 dots — tapering from 9 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Occasion

Daily

Difficulty

Easy

Video

4 min 44 s, uploaded 27 December 2021

Views

86,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Easy Daily Rangolis With 9×1

1. Mark the 9-to-1 dot grid — rows tapering from 9 down to 1 on each side to make a diamond field.
2. In the centre draw a tiny flower and box it in a diamond drawn with interwoven lines, curling the line ends outward at the four points.
3. Beyond each of the four points of the diamond — top, bottom, left and right — draw a small flower with four pointed petals.
4. Above the top flower add a pointed bud edged with an arc of dots, and below the bottom flower add a pointed bud with a line down its middle.
5. On each of the four diagonals draw a large lotus — five fanned petals with a curve of dots along the inner petal line — and a spiral curl at its base.
6. Join the corner lotuses to the centre with curved leaf tendrils and small spirals.
7. Re-trace the outlines in white.

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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
• Rangoli in Everyday Life