Pandaga Rangoli Designs With 16 To 6 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

16 to 6 dots — tapering from 16 dots across the middle down to 6

Structure

Dot-Grid

Video

7 min 10 s, uploaded 28 December 2019

Views

75,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Pandaga Rangoli Designs With 16 To 6 Dots

1. Mark the 16-to-6 dot grid — rows tapering from 16 across the middle to 6 at the top and bottom.
2. In the centre write HAPPY on the first line, NEW on the second, YEAR on the third and 2020 on the fourth, in plain capital letters.
3. Above the lettering draw two roses — each a spiral in the middle wrapped by pointed petals, with a pair of veined leaves at its base — and two more roses below the lettering.
4. Down each side of the lettering draw two more roses, one above the other, so eight roses frame the words.
5. In the four corners of the field draw a small sprig — a curled pointed bud above a leaf with a centre vein, with an arc of small dots along the leaf's outer edge.
6. Re-trace the letters, roses and sprigs in white.

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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

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