Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Motif
- Star
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 4 min 17 s, uploaded 26 October 2019
- Views
- 3.8 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Easy Five Stars Rangoli
- Mark the 12-to-2 dot grid — a 12-dot middle row narrowing to 2-dot rows at the top and bottom.
- In the centre draw a hash of two upright and two flat lines, then join their ends with diagonal lines to make an eight-pointed star.
- Draw four more eight-pointed stars the same way above, below, left and right of the centre star, so the five stars form a cross.
- Put a small circle with a dot inside in the middle of each of the five stars.
- On each of the four diagonals between the stars draw a long band pointing outward, with a V-notch at its outer end and a ribbed leaf tip beyond the notch.
- Against the straight inner end of each band draw a half-circle bulging into the band, edge its curve with a row of dots, and add a spiral curl on each side of it.
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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