Design facts
- Dot grid
- 9 to 5 dots — tapering from 9 dots across the middle down to 5
- Video
- 3 min 27 s, uploaded 9 September 2019
- Views
- 1.6 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Rose Flower Rangoli With 9x5dots for Pongal
- Mark the 9-to-5 dot grid.
- Draw two roses in the middle, one above the other and mirrored — each with a spiral centre wrapped in a cupped petal.
- Round out each rose with wide wavy outer petals and fringe their inner edges with short strokes.
- Give each rose a short stem running out to the top and bottom edges, with long curved leaves sweeping to the left and right.
- Join the leaf lines into a long six-sided outline around both roses.
- Inside each end of the outline draw a pointed almond leaf and mark veins in it.
- At the left and right tips gather the lines into a small loop and add two curling tendrils — one curling up, one curling down.
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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