Kutti Rangoli Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

4 to 2 dots — tapering from 4 dots across the middle down to 2

Video

6 min 40 s, uploaded 29 September 2021

Views

23,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Kutti Rangoli Designs

1. Mark the 4-to-2 dot grid.
2. Draw two vertical and two horizontal lines crossing in a hash shape, leaving a small square in the middle.
3. Enclose each of the eight line ends in a long teardrop loop so the hash becomes a four-way flower of paired petals.
4. Curve each side of the central square into a lens petal and set a small dot flower in the middle.
5. Run a dotted line out along each axis between the paired loops and end it with a small flower — a ring with a fan of rounded petals — at the top, bottom, left and right.
6. In each of the four corners draw a spiral curl framed by scalloped petals, and fringe the petals with short strokes.

Related designs

• Janmashtami Rangoli Designs
• Aadi Krithigai Kolam
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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