Kolam Pongal Flower

Design facts

Dot grid

15 to 8 dots — tapering from 15 dots across the middle down to 8

Video

5 min 56 s, uploaded 13 January 2021

Views

2.2 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Kolam Pongal Flower

1. Mark the 15-to-8 dot grid — fifteen dots across the middle row, narrowing to eight at the top and bottom.
2. Around seven dots — one in the centre and six spaced evenly around it — draw a small hexagon.
3. On each hexagon draw six curled petals in a pinwheel so the seven hexagons become seven open flowers.
4. Inside every hexagon draw a small daisy — a dot ringed by tiny round petals.
5. In each petal draw a short curved line ending in a dot.
6. In the gaps between the flowers draw pointed leaves with a centre vein and a dot, and add lobed leaves on short stems around the central flower.
7. Re-trace all the outlines in white.

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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