Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 3 min 18 s, uploaded 7 April 2025
- Views
- 18,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Kolam Border Designs Easy
- Mark the 8-to-2 dot grid in the middle of the space.
- Draw two four-petal flowers one above the other — heart-notched petals around a small centre circle — and add two short strokes inside each petal.
- Between the flowers, on the left and right, draw a sideways tulip with pointed petals opening toward the flowers and a spiral curl in its rounded outer base.
- Down the left side draw a vertical border: in its middle a pair of pointed leaves around a dot, with spiral scrolls running up and down from it.
- Edge the scrolls with short rows of dots and end the border with a lotus bud at the top and at the bottom.
- Start a matching border down the right side with the same leaf pair, dot and spiral below it.
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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