Pongal Kolam Designs With 16×6 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

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

Video

6 min 37 s, uploaded 23 December 2018

Views

35,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Pongal Kolam Designs With 16×6 Dots

1. Mark the dot grid — rows widening from the top edge to the middle and tapering again toward the bottom edge.
2. In the centre place a red dot and run a short line of three dots out from it to the top, bottom, left and right, making a cross of dots.
3. In each of the four diagonal quadrants draw a fan flower — four rounded petals with notched tips spreading from a point near the centre, with two small triangles filling the corner that faces the centre.
4. Above and below the fan flowers draw a bird in flight — a rounded body, one wing raised, a round eye and a short beak.
5. On the left and right draw a perched bird in profile with a curled wing and a fanned tail of pointed feathers.
6. Between the birds, at the four diagonal positions, draw a three-lobed bell-shaped bud with notched lobes, two spiral curls inside and three small leaves at its base.
7. Around the outside link the birds and buds with a curving vine of pointed leaves, each marked with a centre vein.
8. Fill the fan flowers pink and blue, the top and bottom birds blue, the side birds red, the buds orange and purple and the leaves green, and re-trace the 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