Thai Madham Poo Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

10 to 10 dots — 10 rows of 10, 100 dots

Tradition

Kolam

Video

8 min 40 s, uploaded 23 November 2020

Views

371,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Thai Madham Poo Kolam

1. Mark the 10-to-10 dot grid — ten rows of ten dots in a square.
2. In the centre draw a small circle with a spiral inside and set a group of three short strokes on each of its four sides.
3. Run a double-lined plus cross through the centre and fill each of the four quadrants beside the circle with a hatched quarter-circle fan.
4. Beyond each fan, on the four diagonals, draw a rounded bud holding a teardrop with a dot — four buds in all.
5. At the top, bottom, left and right ends of the cross draw a bowl with a spiral inside, crowned by a pointed petal, and put a small leaf inside the top and left petals.
6. Join the four bowls with slanted bands along the diagonal sides, edging each band with a sawtooth row of small triangles and a line of scallops.
7. On each of the four corners outside the bands draw a small square with a single leaf inside.

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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

Read more

• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu