
Design facts
- Dot grid
- 6 to 6 dots — 6 rows of 6, 36 dots
- Video
- 2 min 54 s, uploaded 22 December 2021
- Views
- 88,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw New Year Flower Easy Chinna Kolam
- Mark the 6-to-6 dot grid — six rows of six dots — and treat it as four 3×3 blocks, one for each corner motif.
- In each block draw a small spiral at the corner nearest the middle of the grid.
- From each spiral fan out four large rounded petals towards the outer corner, and inside each petal draw a short stem ending in a small teardrop loop.
- At the outer tip of each motif draw a tiny sprig of dots.
- In the empty centre between the four motifs write the numerals 2022 in large white strokes.
- Dust the petals lightly with white and re-trace the outlines.
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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