Very Easy 5 Dots Designs Kolam

Design facts

Dot grid

5 to 1 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam

Difficulty

Easy

Video

3 min 22 s, uploaded 2 March 2020

Views

17,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Very Easy 5 Dots Designs Kolam

1. Mark the 5-to-1 dot grid.
2. Join the dots into a square in the centre and fill it with a criss-cross lattice of lines.
3. On each of the four sides of the square draw a long pointed leaf, set pinwheel-fashion so each leaf sweeps past the next corner.
4. Fill each leaf with a central vein and a vine of small paired leaflets.
5. In each of the four corners between the leaves draw a flower — a spiral centre ringed with short strokes and enclosed by rounded petals.
6. Finish with a curling tendril off the upper-left flower and a sprig of small leaflets beside each of the two lower flowers.

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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

• Grids, Lattices, and Thinking in Space
• Counting the Grid
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu