Kolam Designs 8 Into 2

Design facts

Dot grid

8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2

Structure

Sikku/Interlaced

Tradition

Kolam, Sikku Kolam

Video

3 min 6 s, uploaded 5 July 2019

Views

18,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Kolam Designs 8 Into 2

1. Mark the 8-to-2 dot grid.
2. In the centre draw a large circle and ring it with four heart-shaped notched petals to make a four-petal flower, adding three short strokes at the base of each petal.
3. Around the flower draw four curving stems that swirl out in a pinwheel, each ending in a spiral curl.
4. At the top, bottom, left and right draw a rounded bud on each stem with a smaller bud beside it, and fringe both with short strokes.
5. Add a pointed leaf on the stems in each of the four diagonal gaps.

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Further reading

• Shojiro Nagata, “How Many Loops Kolam Loop Pattern Consists of”, Forma 30, 9–18 (2015). doi:10.5047/forma.2015.003
• 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

• The Loop-Pattern Family
• The One-Line Problem: Euler and the Kolam
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu