Design facts
- Dot grid
- 21 to 11 dots — tapering from 21 dots across the middle down to 11
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Motif
- Peacock
- Video
- 8 min 22 s, uploaded 9 January 2019
- Views
- 72,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Peacock Kolam Rangoli Designs With 21 By 11 Dots
- Mark the 21-to-11 dot grid — rows growing by one from 11 at the top to 21 in the middle, then shrinking back to 11 at the bottom.
- In the centre draw a six-armed pinwheel of curved blades turning around a single dot.
- Enclose the pinwheel in a six-pointed star made of two interlocking triangles.
- At each of the six star points draw a hooked leaf that curls outward.
- In the six gaps between the points draw six peacocks — a small head with a three-curl crest tucked against the star, a curved neck, and a long scalloped body sweeping outward.
- Give each peacock a single small foot at the outer edge and set a single dot between neighbouring peacocks.
- Fill with colours — orange star, blue pinwheel, green hooks, peacocks alternating blue, red and purple with inner bands — and outline everything in white.
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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