Pongal Paanai Kolam Rangoli

Design facts

Video

5 min 35 s, uploaded 3 January 2019

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121,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Pongal Paanai Kolam Rangoli

1. Mark a large dot grid that is widest across the middle and narrows towards the top and bottom.
2. In the centre draw a small circle inside a square and wrap four curved, pointed petals around it in a pinwheel.
3. From between the petals run four vines out on the diagonals, each with a pair of slim leaves.
4. Draw four pongal pots facing outward — at the top, bottom, left and right — each a round body with a flared neck band and three round mounds of overflowing pongal at the mouth.
5. Divide each pot body with a middle band of four ovals and fill the bands above and below with rows of triangles.
6. Add a spiral curl on each side of every pot's neck.
7. At the end of each vine, between the pots, draw a butterfly with spread wings and curled antennae.
8. Colour the pot bodies green with magenta ovals and blue triangles, the necks blue, the mounds yellow and red, the pinwheel red around an orange centre, the leaves green and the butterflies orange, then re-trace every outline 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