Simple Alpona Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

6 to 6 dots — 6 rows of 6, 36 dots

Video

5 min 8 s, uploaded 11 August 2022

Views

21,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Simple Alpona Designs

1. Mark the 6-to-6 dot grid — six rows of six dots.
2. Treat the grid as nine blocks of four dots and draw an X across the centre block and the middle block on each side, so five crosses form a plus.
3. Extend the lines of the crosses into an interlaced star framework that links all five.
4. In the centre draw a four-petal flower — pointed petals on the vertical and horizontal, each holding a dot on a stem.
5. Put a spiral in each of the four diagonal gaps around the flower.
6. Draw a small heart at the end of each of the four arms.
7. Wrap each small heart in a larger heart outline so four big lobed hearts form the outer edge.
8. Draw a square around the four-dot block on each corner and join it to the framework with a diagonal line.

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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