Design facts
- Dot grid
- 9 to 1 dots — tapering from 9 dots across the middle down to 1
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 4 min 48 s, uploaded 31 December 2021
- Views
- 27,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Easy Friday Kolam by Simple
- Mark the 9 to 1 dot grid — a diamond of rows from 1 up to 9 and back to 1.
- On each of the four axes draw two overlapping diamonds and fill the small diamond where they overlap with a four-square grid.
- Join the inner corners of the four diamond pairs with straight lines so a larger diamond lattice forms around the middle, and draw a small daisy at the centre.
- Run a line of dots from the centre along each diagonal.
- On each of the four diagonals, outside the lattice, draw a lotus — three curved petals with a dot in each — flanked by a veined leaf on one side and spiral curls.
- At the top and bottom tips draw a bud with a fan of short lines and dots at its base, and at the left and right tips draw a small bud with a spiral curl on either side.
- Finish with spiral curls at the outer ends of the leaves.
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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