Perfect Interesting New Model Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

8 to 8 dots — 8 rows of 8, 64 dots

Tradition

Kolam

Video

4 min 23 s, uploaded 7 December 2019

Views

16,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Perfect Interesting New Model Kolam

1. Mark the 8-to-8 square dot grid and treat it as four 4-by-4 quarters.
2. In the outer corner of each quarter draw a rose — a spiral inside a circle — and fringe the lower edge of the two upper roses with short strokes.
3. Beside each rose draw two long leaves along the outer edges of the quarter, each with a midrib edged with parallel veins on one side and a row of dots on the other.
4. Behind each rose, at the very corner, fan out a cluster of narrow pointed petals like a bud.
5. From the rose draw a lobed square outline around the inner dots of the quarter, with a small tuft of strokes at each of its corners.
6. In the centre between the four quarters draw a small flower with round petals and a dot in the middle.

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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

Read more

• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu