Every morning across Tamil Nadu, thresholds are adorned with geometric rice-flour patterns. Welcome to a curated digital archive of 744+ authentic Kolam designs.Every morning at dawn across Tamil Nadu, thresholds are purified and adorned with geometric rice-flour patterns. Welcome to a curated digital archive preserving 744+ authentic Kolam designs, knot geometries, and step-by-step traditions.
Dominant masterworks handpicked from our permanent collection
The most admired and practiced patterns this month
Step-by-step pattern walkthroughs, festival traditions, and morning reflections by Vinns
Also called Brahma Mudi: mesmerizing continuous single-line knot patterns that loop endlessly around dots.
“A Kolam is not meant to last forever. It is drawn at sunrise with rice powder, feeding the birds and ants, and dissolves by dusk, a daily lesson in impermanence, symmetry, and sacred gratitude.”
Drawn using coarse rice flour (Arisi Maavu) to nourish ants, birds, and insects as a morning blessing.
Ancient array geometry, recursive fractal loops, and rotational invariance that fascinate modern mathematicians.
A kinetic morning meditation requiring balance, rhythmic breathing, and hand-eye spatial precision.
Artist · Author · Cultural Chronicler
Hello and vanakkam! I am Vinns, the artist behind this collection. Growing up in Tamil Nadu, I spent mornings watching grandmothers draw continuous, mesmerizing loop patterns on freshly swept thresholds.
In 2013, I started this blog to capture, preserve, and share these endangered mathematical and cultural designs before they were forgotten. Over the last decade, I have personally drawn, photographed, and cataloged more than 744 step-by-step Kolam patterns: from easy 3-dot beginner forms to sacred festival rangolis.
Geometric patterns mapped across precise matrices of 3 to 21 dots (Nerkodu and Idukku Pulli).
Interactive index of traditions, lineages, and techniques
Intricate patterns drawn around a grid of dots
Continuous loop patterns weaving around dots
Flowing line-based designs and motifs
Creative freehand rangoli without dot grids
Sacred patterns for prayer rooms and rituals
Kolams featuring vegetable and nature motifs
Every Indian celebration has its own sacred geometry. From the radiant oil lamps of Karthigai Deepam to the overflowing sweet-rice pots of Pongal, explore threshold designs sanctified by centuries of ritual practice.
Surya & Sweet Rice Pot Geometries
Pre-Dawn Devotional Sikku Geometries
Terracotta Lamps & Flame Rings
Radiant Star Rangoli & Welcoming Diya Rows
Golu Steps, Kalasam & Goddess Mandalas
Pillaiyar Deities, Modak & Omkara
Butter Pots, Cradle & Peacock Feathers
Shodashdala Padmam & Golden Kalasam
Latest documented and verified designs added to the repository
Whether you are drawing your first 3-dot floral loop or mastering an intricate 15-dot Margazhi courtyard pattern, our interactive dot grid simulator and tracing guides are designed to help you learn.
