How to Draw Beautiful Kalash Rangoli

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 4 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 4

Video

3 min 6 s, uploaded 7 August 2019

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6,561 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw How to Draw Beautiful Kalash Rangoli

1. Mark the 7-to-4 dot grid.
2. In the centre draw a round kalash with a wide neck and decorate its body in bands — scallops, a row of dots, a zigzag braid, more scallops and a second row of dots.
3. In the mouth of the kalash draw a pointed coconut with a teardrop and dot inside, and fan three mango leaves out on each side of it.
4. Beside the lower half of the kalash draw two broad petals on each side, curving up into a lotus base.
5. On the outer tip of the base on each side draw a diya with a teardrop flame ringed by short rays.
6. Below the base draw five veined leaves fanning downward — one pointing straight down in the centre and two on each side.

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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