Welcome Kolam Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

11 to 1 dots — tapering from 11 dots across the middle down to 1

Tradition

Kolam

Video

3 min 18 s, uploaded 10 December 2019

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7,888 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Welcome Kolam Designs

1. Mark the 11-to-1 dot grid — a diamond with eleven dots across the middle row, tapering to a single dot at the top and bottom.
2. At each of the four points of the diamond draw a small triangular cup pointing outward.
3. From each cup draw a lotus of four pointed petals — two wide outer petals and two inner petals — opening toward the centre.
4. Inside each lotus draw a round bud with a spiral at its heart.
5. In the centre, between the four buds, draw a four-petal flower with its pointed petals set in an X.
6. On each diagonal, between neighbouring lotuses, draw a long curving tendril that ends in a spiral curl.
7. Line the outer edge of each tendril with a row of small leaves to make a leaf sprig.

Related designs

• Fish Rangoli Designs 11 Dots
• 11 Pulli Kolam
• 11 Chukkala Muggulu

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