Design facts
- Dot grid
- 10 to 2 dots — tapering from 10 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Video
- 2 min 34 s, uploaded 2 January 2022
- Views
- 210,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw How to Draw 10 to 2 Kolam
- Mark the 10-to-2 dot grid — ten dots in the widest row narrowing to two at the ends.
- At the top draw two birds facing each other with beaks almost touching — round heads, dot eyes, curved breasts and folded wings — and arch a curved line over their heads.
- Seat the birds on a curved branch that runs out to both sides and ends in a spiral curl on each side.
- From each bird draw a long pointed tail sweeping down and outward.
- Below the birds hang two small teardrop leaves with midribs between small spiral curls, then add a larger lobed leaf on each side.
- At the bottom centre draw a four-petal flower with a ringed-dot centre and two short dashes in each petal.
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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