Kolam 8X4 Dots Flower Rangoli Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

8 to 4 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 4

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Video

3 min 7 s, uploaded 2 June 2020

Views

23,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Kolam 8X4 Dots Flower Rangoli Designs

1. Mark the 8-to-4 dot grid.
2. Around the centre draw four large leaf shapes, one in each quadrant, each with two pointed tips — one reaching up or down, one reaching sideways.
3. Inside the inner corner of each leaf draw a small bud of three loop petals with a dot.
4. Wrap the outer edge of each leaf with broad scalloped lobes so the four quadrants open into big fan flowers, and add short tick strokes at the pointed tips.
5. Inside each fan add an arc of dots and a three-pronged stamen tipped with dots.
6. In the centre draw a spiral inside a circle and run four straight lines out from it — up, down, left and right — each ending in a dot.

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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