Kolam Designs for Deepawali

Design facts

Dot grid

10 to 10 dots — 10 rows of 10, 100 dots

Tradition

Kolam

Occasion

Diwali

Video

4 min 55 s, uploaded 9 September 2019

Views

272,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Kolam Designs for Deepawali

1. Mark the 10-to-10 dot grid — a square of ten rows of ten dots.
2. In the centre draw a small square, then run double lines from its corners out to the four corners of the grid to make a broad X.
3. In each of the four spaces between the arms of the X — top, bottom, left and right — draw an octagon and divide it into a lattice of small squares.
4. Fill the four cut-off corners of each octagon with short parallel hatching lines.
5. Near each corner end the diagonal arm in a cluster of pointed triangles with their tips pointing out to the two outer edges, and draw a small spiral inside the triangle beside the corner square.
6. In each of the four outer corners draw a small square with a single curved hook inside.

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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

• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu
• Festivals and Rituals