Modern Rangoli Art

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 1 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 1

Video

3 min 39 s, uploaded 21 January 2023

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4,336 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Modern Rangoli Art

1. Mark the 7-to-1 dot grid — a diamond of rows tapering from 7 in the middle to a single dot at the top and bottom.
2. Join the four dots around the centre dot into a diamond, outline it twice and fill it with a lattice of crossing lines.
3. On each of the four sides of the diamond draw a rounded petal and fill it with cross-hatching.
4. Enclose the petals in a circle and from it point a small veined leaf outward to the top, bottom, left and right.
5. Around this draw a large diamond outline with curved sides, ending each of its four points in a small cluster of dots between two spiral curls, and set pairs of spiral curls inside it.
6. On each of the four diagonals outside the outline draw a fan of rounded petals with a dotted arc inside.

Related designs

• Ugadi Special Muggulu 7
• Traditional Sankranthi Rangoli Designs 7×1 Dots Simple Pongal Kolam and Muggulu
• Rangoli Design Simple and Easy

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