Very Very Easy Rangoli Design

Design facts

Dot grid

9 to 1 dots — tapering from 9 dots across the middle down to 1

Difficulty

Easy

Video

3 min 42 s, uploaded 1 January 2022

Views

18,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Very Very Easy Rangoli Design

1. Mark the 9-to-1 dot grid — nine dots across the middle row tapering to one at the top and bottom.
2. Draw two vertical chains of four interlocking pointed loops, one on each side of the centre column of dots.
3. Draw two matching horizontal chains of four loops, one above and one below the middle row, so the four chains cross into a lattice.
4. At the two upper crossings draw a smaller petal inside each of the four surrounding loops to make a four-petal flower, and at the lower-left crossing add the same petals in the top, left and bottom loops.
5. In the centre draw a four-petal flower with a short stroke ending in a dot between each pair of petals.
6. On the top, bottom, left and right points draw a spiral curl and beyond it a lotus bud — a pointed centre petal flanked by two curled side petals.

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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