Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 3 min 21 s, uploaded 12 October 2019
- Views
- 12,000 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Very Simple Kolam Designs With 11×3
- Mark the 11-to-3 dot grid.
- Draw four eight-spoke asterisks — above, below, left and right of the centre.
- Join the spoke ends of each asterisk to turn it into an eight-point star of diamond petals.
- Link the four stars with straight lines into a large diamond around the centre, closing a small square between each pair of stars.
- Draw a spiral curl in the notch at the outer tip of each star.
- In the centre draw a small diamond and fill it with a criss-cross lattice of lines.
- On the four diagonals beside the small squares add a small pointed oval with an upswept curved tail.
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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