Design facts
- Dot grid
- 10 to 2 dots — tapering from 10 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Occasion
- New Year
- Video
- 2 min 40 s, uploaded 23 November 2024
- Views
- 397,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw New Year 2025 Kolam 10 Dots
- Mark the 10-to-2 dot grid.
- Down the centre write 2025 in tall numerals, one digit below the other.
- Enclose the numerals in a tall oval and edge its top and bottom arcs with small leaves to make leafy vines.
- In each of the four quadrants around the oval draw a butterfly with two scalloped wings, each holding two small circles, and two striped leaf-shaped inner wings between them.
- Give each butterfly curled spiral antennae on its outer side.
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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