Kolam With Dots Simple 12 to 2

Design facts

Dot grid

12 to 2 dots — tapering from 12 dots across the middle down to 2

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Difficulty

Easy

Video

4 min 1 s, uploaded 17 November 2018

Views

55,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Kolam With Dots Simple 12 to 2

1. Mark the 12-to-2 dot grid — rows widening by two from 2 at the top to 12 in the middle, then narrowing back to 2 at the bottom.
2. In the centre draw a five-petal flower with a dot inside a small circle at its heart and four short stamen ticks around the circle.
3. Draw four more of the same five-petal flowers on the diagonals — upper-left, upper-right, lower-left and lower-right — so their petals touch the centre flower.
4. From the top and bottom of the cluster run a straight shaft outward and end each in a wide curved anchor head whose two ends curl back as hooks.
5. From the left and right of the cluster run a shaft outward and end each in an arrowhead with curled barbs pointing out to the side.

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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