Pongal Colour Kolam With Dots 15×3

Design facts

Dot grid

15 to 3 dots — tapering from 15 dots across the middle down to 3

Video

5 min 46 s, uploaded 13 January 2021

Views

11,000 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Pongal Colour Kolam With Dots 15×3

1. Mark the 15-to-3 dot grid.
2. In the centre draw an eight-petal flower of pointed petals, with spiral curls in the gaps at the top, bottom and sides.
3. From the centre run a leafy vine out along each of the four diagonals — a stem lined with small leaves on both sides.
4. At the end of each vine draw a cone-shaped cup holding a rounded flower with scalloped petals and a spiral centre.
5. On the top, bottom, left and right draw a diamond holding a small flower, framed by four curved strips set like a pinwheel.
6. At the corners of each pinwheel frame add clusters of small teardrop petals.
7. Colour the centre flower orange, the vine leaves green, the cups purple with blue flowers, and the pinwheel frames in pink, red and purple around contrasting diamonds.
8. Re-trace all outlines 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