Sankranti Rangoli Designs With 8 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

8 to 8 dots — 8 rows of 8, 64 dots

Structure

Dot-Grid

Occasion

Sankranti

Video

2 min 51 s, uploaded 25 November 2017

Views

105,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Sankranti Rangoli Designs With 8 Dots

1. Mark a square dot grid with 8 dots in each row.
2. In each quarter of the grid draw a small square petal at the outer corner and a slanting diamond along each of the two outer edges, all meeting at one point.
3. On the inner side of each meeting point draw a large three-lobed flower cup facing the middle of the design.
4. Draw a spiral inside every square and diamond petal.
5. Fan yellow stamen lines tipped with dots from each meeting point into its flower cup.
6. Colour all petals and cups magenta, add short white strokes on the cup lobes 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

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