Five-Dot Kolam
Sikku Kolam
For Beginners
Step by step
- Dots
- Line begins
- Line continues
- Full kolam
How to draw it
- Sweep the floor and sprinkle water to make it damp.
- Place the dots in rows, as in the picture. Keep the same gap between the dots.
- Hold some flour between your thumb and first finger, and let it fall slowly as you draw the line.
- Follow the step-by-step pictures and keep drawing the line without touching the dots.
- When the line comes back to where it started, the kolam is done.
These kolams are not copies of old pictures. They are drawn on this site by following the usual rules for drawing a kolam. The names are only there to help you tell them apart. The way people draw kolams differs from family to family and from place to place.