The indexes below are ways into the corpus rather than lists of their own: each term links to the entry that describes it and shows how many designs stand behind it, so a reader can enter by region, by occasion, by construction, by motif, or alphabetically. Every relationship shown is derived from the platform’s knowledge graph — nothing here is maintained by hand, which is why the indexes cannot fall out of step with the entries they point at.
Indexes
Encyclopedia chapter · generated from the encyclopedia's own data
Regional index
Traditions, with the entry that describes each and the designs it holds.
- Kolam 889 designs
- Muggulu 719 designs
- Sikku Kolam 48 designs
- Alpana 4 designs
- Pookalam entry pending 0 designs
- Kalamezhuthu entry pending 0 designs
- Sanskar Bharti entry pending 0 designs
- Tipkyanchi entry pending 0 designs
- Aripan entry pending 0 designs
- Mandana entry pending 0 designs
- Jhoti entry pending 0 designs
- Pulli Kolam 0 designs
- Rangoli 0 designs
- Kambi Kolam entry pending 0 designs
Festival index
Festivals and occasions in the corpus calendar.
- Diwali 186 designs
- New Year 141 designs
- Daily 129 designs
- Sankranti 40 designs
- Ugadi 32 designs
- Navaratri 31 designs
- Karthika Masam entry pending 22 designs
- Karthigai Deepam 19 designs
- Margazhi 18 designs
- Christmas entry pending 15 designs
- Ganesh Chaturthi entry pending 12 designs
- Onam 10 designs
- Shivaratri entry pending 10 designs
- Durga Puja entry pending 9 designs
- Varalakshmi Vratam 8 designs
- Holi entry pending 6 designs
- Karva Chauth entry pending 6 designs
- Teej entry pending 6 designs
- Vasant Panchami entry pending 6 designs
- Aadi 5 designs
- Janmashtami entry pending 5 designs
- Independence Day entry pending 3 designs
- Pongal 2 designs
- Ratha Saptami 1 designs
- Bhogi entry pending 0 designs
- Puthandu 0 designs
Structural index
The construction modes designs are built on.
- Dot-Grid 934 designs
- Sikku/Interlaced 48 designs
- Freehand 1 designs
- Radial 0 designs
- Line 0 designs
Motif index
The motif vocabulary, most-documented first.
- Diya 156 designs
- Butterfly 56 designs
- Lotus 40 designs
- Peacock 32 designs
- Star 25 designs
- Pot 15 designs
- Lampstand 7 designs
- Chariot 7 designs
- Conch 4 designs
- Parrot 3 designs
- Fish 1 designs
- Tulsi Pot 1 designs
- Swastika 1 designs
- Mango 1 designs
- Cow 0 designs
- Tree of Life 0 designs
- Coconut 0 designs
- Banana 0 designs
- Chakra 0 designs
- Mandala 0 designs
- Spiral 0 designs
- Flute 0 designs
- Bell 0 designs
- Elephant 0 designs
- Hamsa 0 designs
- Sun 0 designs
- Moon 0 designs
- Creeper 0 designs
- Gopuram 0 designs
- Naga 0 designs
- Lakshmi's Feet 0 designs
- Garland 0 designs
Full A–Z
Every published entry, 105 in total. The same index appears on the encyclopedia home page.
A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W
A
- A Language Without Words
- A Women’s Art
- Aadi
- Alpana
- Antiquity Without Artifacts
- Art, Mathematics, and Heritage
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
M
- Mandala
- Mango
- Margazhi
- Mistakes and Corrections
- Moon
- Muggulu
- Muggulu at Sankranti: When Streets Become Galleries
N
O
P
R
S
- Sacred Ground: Ritual, Epic, and the Classical Age
- Sankranti
- Seventeen Ways to Repeat
- Sikku Kolam
- Simple Rules, Infinite Patterns
- Spiral
- Star
- Sun
- Swastika
T
- Temples, Regions, and the Making of Traditions
- The Auspicious Mark
- The Cut-Paper Offering
- The Digital Threshold
- The Elements of Design
- The Empty Space: What Is Not Drawn
- The Flower Carpet
- The Four Symmetries
- The Hand and Its Helpers
- The Kolam Style Families
- The Names of Indian Floor Art
- The Natural Palette
- The One-Line Problem: Euler and the Kolam
- The Philosophy of Impermanence
- The Rice-Paste Line
- The Threshold: Rangoli at the Boundary
- The Two Families of Line
- The Unnamed Masters
- The White Line: Rice Flour and Stone Powder
- The Widening Circle
- The Working Palette
- Tree of Life
- Tulsi Pot