Happy Pongal Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 7 dots — 7 rows of 7, 49 dots

Video

6 min 7 s, uploaded 12 January 2025

Views

1.5 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Happy Pongal Kolam

1. Mark the 7-to-7 square dot grid — seven rows of seven dots.
2. In the centre draw a four-petal flower with pointed petals on the diagonals.
3. From the flower draw four sugarcane stalks — up, down, left and right — as straight double-line bars divided into segments by joint lines.
4. At the outer end of each stalk draw a fan of long pointed leaves.
5. In each of the four quarters draw a tilted round pot with a band at its mouth, the mouth facing the corner.
6. Heap a cluster of round rice bubbles spilling out of each pot's mouth toward the corner.
7. Colour the stalks purple with white joints and the leaves green, then colour the pots and leave the rice white.

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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