Single Bhogi Kundalu and Pot Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

9 to 1 dots — tapering from 9 dots across the middle down to 1

Video

4 min 41 s, uploaded 7 January 2020

Views

17,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Single Bhogi Kundalu and Pot Kolam

1. Mark the 9-to-1 dot grid.
2. In the centre draw a round pot with a diamond net across its body and a scalloped band beneath the net.
3. On top of the pot draw a rim band filled with a criss-cross lattice, curled handles at each end, and three rounded mounds heaped above it.
4. On the left and right draw a lotus of pointed petals with a spiral at its outer tip, joined to the pot by a straight line through a small leaf shape.
5. Above each side lotus draw a segmented stalk rising toward the top, crowned with a spray of leaves.
6. Below the pot draw an upright lotus flanked by broad curving leaves that sweep up to the side lotuses, and finish its stem with a spiral curl.
7. Beside the lower leaves on each side add a fan of nested arcs edged with dots.

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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