Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Occasion
- New Year
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 2 min 20 s, uploaded 15 December 2019
- Views
- 45,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Small and Simple New Year Kolam
- Mark the 8-to-2 dot grid — a diamond of rows tapering from 8 in the middle down to 2 at the top and bottom.
- Draw a scalloped line of four arcs across the dots above the middle rows, and a mirrored line of four arcs below them.
- In the band between the two scalloped lines write the digits 2020 in large strokes, with the two zeros as rounded ovals.
- Above the top scalloped line draw a tall pointed teardrop in the centre with a line of dots inside and a fringe of short strokes around its outside.
- Draw a smaller pointed leaf with a dotted centre line on either side of the teardrop, and finish each end of the scalloped line with a spiral curl.
- Repeat the teardrop, side leaves and spiral curls below the lower scalloped line, pointing downward.
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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