Fish Rangoli Designs 11 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

11 to 1 dots — tapering from 11 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Motif

Fish

Video

3 min 55 s, uploaded 15 February 2018

Views

16,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Fish Rangoli Designs 11 Dots

1. Mark a diamond-shaped dot grid with a single dot left open at the centre.
2. On each of the four points of the diamond draw a fish facing the centre — a body of two hearts set back to back with a band between them, and a round eye near the head.
3. Add a small triangular fin on each side of the band of every fish and a forked tail at its outer end.
4. On the four diagonals between the fish draw a crown-shaped chevron with a notched outer edge, its square corner pointing to the centre.
5. From each fish's mouth draw a curved line that bends towards the centre and joins the inner corner of the next chevron, so the four fish turn like a pinwheel.
6. Colour the hearts of each fish magenta, the band and tail green, the fins orange and the chevrons blue.

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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

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