Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 7 dots — 7 rows of 7, 49 dots
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Occasion
- Janmashtami
- Video
- 3 min 55 s, uploaded 4 February 2020
- Views
- 19,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Krishna Jayanthi Kolam Designs 7
- Mark the 7-to-7 dot grid.
- In the centre draw a small diamond and fill it with a crosshatched net of lines.
- On each of the four corners draw a fan of four diamond petals meeting at one point, and join that point to the middle of the nearest side of the central net with a straight line.
- Inside each fan petal draw stamen lines from the meeting point ending in small circles, and notch each petal tip with a small V.
- On each side of the net — above, below, left and right — draw a lotus bud of layered pointed petals opening outward.
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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