Simple Rice Flour Small Padi Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

6 to 2 dots — tapering from 6 dots across the middle down to 2

Tradition

Kolam

Difficulty

Easy

Video

8 min 8 s, uploaded 14 July 2021

Views

20,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Simple Rice Flour Small Padi Kolam

1. Mark the 6-to-2 dot grid.
2. Draw an X cross over five dots set out in a plus shape — the centre dot, the dots above and below it, and the dots on either side of it.
3. Around each cross draw four large rounded petals, one between each pair of arms, so the five crosses become five round flowers touching in a plus shape.
4. Inside each of the five flowers draw a small four-petal loop flower — petals pointing up, down, left and right — and in each petal of the four outer flowers add a dot-tipped stamen line.
5. In each of the four diagonal gaps between the outer flowers draw a feathered leaf with a central vein and slanting side veins.
6. On each of the four outer corners add a small flower of three rounded petals around a dot.

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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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• The Kolam Style Families
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