Design facts
- Dot grid
- 4 to 4 dots — 4 rows of 4, 16 dots
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 8 min 57 s, uploaded 18 January 2021
- Views
- 54,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Small Easy Kolam With 4×4 Dots
- Mark the 4-to-4 dot grid — four rows of four dots.
- Draw four flowers, one in each quarter of the grid: four loop petals around a dot, a short line and a dot inside every petal, and four straight spokes on the diagonals ending in dots.
- Join the flowers with curved lines so a cell with curved sides is enclosed in the centre; draw a small daisy with a dot centre inside it and four more daisies, one between each neighbouring pair of flowers.
- At the top and bottom draw a hatched half-cup and crown it with a sprig of two pairs of leaves and a pointed bud at the tip; on the left and right draw the same cup with its sprig pointing outwards.
- On the two outer sides of every flower draw a pointed arch enclosing a small dotted flower — eight arches in all, two flanking each cup — and in each of the four corners between the arches draw a curved lobe holding a spiral curl.
- Edge the four corner lobes with a line of small dots and re-trace the outlines in white.
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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