Rangavallikalu Muggulu 5 Dots Deepam Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

5 to 1 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam, Muggulu

Technique

Rangavalli

Motif

Diya

Video

3 min 37 s, uploaded 17 October 2021

Views

19,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Rangavallikalu Muggulu 5 Dots Deepam Kolam

1. Mark the 5-to-1 dot grid.
2. In the upper half of the grid draw a diya with its bowl resting on the middle dot of the widest row, and frame its flame in a pointed lotus bud.
3. Below the diya stack three more lamp bowls one under another, each holding a small flower of round petals.
4. Under the lowest bowl draw a lotus base — a fan of rounded petals filled with white.
5. On each side of the stack draw a parrot facing outward, with a spiral eye, a hooked beak and a dotted, feathered body.
6. Above each parrot add a small lamp on a curling stem with stamen strokes, and a cluster of round petals with a leafy sprig beside it.
7. On each side of the base draw a large scroll that ends in an outward spiral.

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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

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