Harvest Festival Kolam 15×1 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

15 to 1 dots — tapering from 15 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Video

3 min 55 s, uploaded 14 January 2020

Views

1.4 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Harvest Festival Kolam 15×1 Dots

1. Mark the 15-to-1 dot grid — fifteen dots across the middle row, narrowing to one at the top and bottom.
2. On each of the four sides — top, bottom, left and right — draw a butterfly with two scalloped wings and a body of small linked loops along the middle line.
3. Put a dot inside a small circle on each wing and curl two spiral antennae from each butterfly towards the centre.
4. In the centre draw a four-petal flower — four pointed petals in a cross, each holding a smaller petal outline.
5. On each diagonal run a stem from the flower to an arrowhead pointing out to the corner, with a spiral curl beside each arrowhead.
6. Re-trace all the outlines in 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

Read more

• Grids, Lattices, and Thinking in Space
• Counting the Grid
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu