Star Kolam Designs With 11 Into 6 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

11 to 6 dots — tapering from 11 dots across the middle down to 6

Structure

Sikku/Interlaced

Tradition

Kolam, Sikku Kolam

Motif

Star

Video

4 min 48 s, uploaded 20 September 2019

Views

64,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Star Kolam Designs With 11 Into 6 Dots

1. Mark the 11-to-6 dot grid — rows growing from 6 at the top to 11 in the middle and back to 6 at the bottom.
2. In the centre draw a dot inside a small circle.
3. Around it draw two large interlocking triangles to make a six-pointed star, then rule extra lines inside each triangle parallel to its sides so the star fills with a lattice of small triangles.
4. Extend the top and bottom points of the star into small diamonds.
5. In the six gaps around the star draw six flowers, each with six rounded petals and a stamen line ending in a dot inside every petal.

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• Sankranthi Muggulu Designs With Colours
• 11 to 6 Pongal Rangoli Muggulu Designs
• Beautiful Pongal Kolam

Further reading

• Shojiro Nagata, “How Many Loops Kolam Loop Pattern Consists of”, Forma 30, 9–18 (2015). doi:10.5047/forma.2015.003
• 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 Loop-Pattern Family
• The One-Line Problem: Euler and the Kolam
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu
• Star Kolam
• Motifs and Symbolism