Simple Rice Flour Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 1 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 1

Tradition

Kolam

Difficulty

Easy

Video

3 min 34 s, uploaded 27 October 2021

Views

29,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Simple Rice Flour Kolam

1. Mark the 7-to-1 dot grid — the middle row of 7 dots, rows stepping down to a single dot at the top and bottom.
2. On the middle row draw three diamonds in a row with their corners touching, and fill each with a cross-hatched lattice.
3. Above the middle diamond draw a lamp with a flame, and on either side of it a curved petal with an inner vein bending outward so the group reads as a lotus.
4. Below the middle diamond mirror the lamp bowl and the petal pair, and hang a pointed bud with a dotted edge and two spiral tendrils from it.
5. At each end of the row draw a side-facing flower of rounded petals with a spiral at its heart, and add spiral curls above and below it.
6. Edge the top and bottom buds with dots, fill the petals with a dusting of white and go over 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

Read more

• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu