Entrance Simple Rangoli 5×3 Dots Designs Welcome Home Beginners Muggulu Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

5 to 3 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 3

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam, Muggulu

Difficulty

Beginner

Video

3 min 4 s, uploaded 25 January 2026

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4,233 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Entrance Simple Rangoli 5×3 Dots Designs Welcome Home Beginners Muggulu Kolam

1. Mark the 5-to-3 dot grid.
2. In the centre draw a dot, then draw two large overlapping triangles around it — one pointing up, one pointing down — to make a six-pointed star.
3. On the top point of the star set a pointed bud; below the bottom point draw a hanging leaf with a small spiral curling out on each side, then a pair of leaves spreading left and right, and a pointed bud beneath them filled with a column of small dots.
4. Outside the two upper side points draw a four-petal flower with pointed petals and a small spiral beside it, and fringe its outer edge with short strokes tipped with dots.
5. Outside the two lower side points draw a lotus of curved pointed petals fanning outward and downward from the point, with a midrib ending in a dot down its middle.
6. Extend the star's straight sides outward as lines running beneath the flowers and lotuses, and fill the bands between the motifs with rows of small dots and short dashes.

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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
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu
• Andhra Pradesh and Telangana