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Where centuries of matrilineal memory meet the digital archive, celebrating the daily dawn ritual of rice flour, array symmetry, and unbroken cosmic loops.
“Every morning begins with sweeping the threshold, lighting the diya, and welcoming prosperity.”
Currently in the process of compiling decades of authentic hand-drawn patterns into a printed edition. Publishers and cultural collaborators interested in partnering are warmly invited to connect.
Original kolams under “My own creation” are copyrighted for personal study and ritual practice only. Commercial reproduction or YouTube broadcasting requires written consent.
I am Vinns, the person behind this site. I am basically an engineer and drawing lines is a part of my profession. I love to embrace the designs and patterns in day to day life. Living in abroad hasn't suppressed my passion towards the Indian Art of Drawing and still I manage to slice out my time for drawing kolams.
I love to draw kolams, my passion too. A small intention to exhibit one of the richest traditions of India to the world by sharing my kolams with this site.
“Drawing kolam is a meditation to me, where all the negative thoughts spinning around are hurled away by this beautiful mantra. Concentration and coordination gel together to create a lively art called kolam.”
Drawing kolams is a part of a women's life in India, its being inherited by generations from mother to daughter. As an Indian, I draw kolams and follow the tradition taught by elders.
I started to draw kolams at the age of eight and that was only during my school vacation, when we traveled to my grandma's home. My inspiration is my Mother, who used to draw huge kolams. Her sikku kolams embraced me to follow her style in drawing kolams and still haven't come out of the trance of sikku world, obviously which totals to 200 plus sikku kolams in this site. Though my mother drew line kolams, but I was much comfortable with the sikku kolams. And after my high school hostel life, while I was back to home and I made it a quotation routine to draw kolams at the doorstep. Usually it was 11 dots sikku kolams recreated from my Mother's kolam note book.
This site has Collection of kolams done by me on different days and occasions. I have used different mediums to draw kolams right from kola powder to vegetables 🙂
As I receive requests for the dot and design template from viewers, I have added a new page for tutorials, where step by step procedure is given for drawing a kolam, furthermore the dot patterns and procedure can be seen in each post.
I have spent hours right from designing and drawing kolams, so Please be considerate to give credits while reproducing my works. If you wish to upload your creations in my website, Do send your photos to admin@vinns.in or vinnskolam@gmail.com or Facebook page.
Hope you enjoy the stay on my website and do visit again.
“A Kolam is drawn at dawn knowing full well it will be wiped clean by footsteps before noon. In this daily creation and letting go lies the quiet wisdom of our ancestors.”
Drawn with pure rice flour to feed ants, birds, and small creatures before the family eats.
Fluid finger coordination and breath control at daybreak bring quiet calm and presence.
Drawn at the entrance doorstep (Vasal) to invite health, auspiciousness, and joy.
For generations across Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Karnataka, and Kerala, Kolam knowledge was never taught from books. It was passed by observation: mothers to daughters, grandmothers to granddaughters, kneeling in the cool morning dust before sunrise.
Kolam encompasses distinct sacred geometries: from continuous Brahma Mudi knotwork to disciplined dot arrays and festive twin-line architectures. Explore each tradition below:
“An ancient geometry of continuous closed loops woven harmoniously around grid dots without broken ends.”
Rather than connecting dots directly, the artist guides an unbroken loop of rice flour around each anchor point, creating endless closed labyrinths without severed ends to invite cosmic protection and infinity.
What looks like effortless intuition is grounded in strict mathematical logic: array symmetry, topological knot invariants, and recursive coordinate matrices.
The genius of classical Sikku Kolam lies in its singular constraint: a single unbroken loop that weaves through dozens of dot coordinates and returns gracefully to its exact origin without a single severed line.
As modern lifestyles evolve and high-rise apartments replace sandstone courtyards, many of these oral pattern vocabularies risk disappearing.
Vinns Kolam is built to serve as an authentic, beautifully curated digital repository: documenting patterns with precise dot grids, step breakdowns, and cultural context so future generations worldwide can continue to learn and practice.
Every design is grounded in authentic South Indian heritage, accurately attributed to style, regional occasion, and sacred traditions.
Dot coordinates (Ner Pulli and Idu Pulli) and loop pathways are documented clearly for effortless practice, learning, and replication.
Open digital tools and curricula designed to inspire both beginners learning their first 3-dot design and seasoned master practitioners globally.
Whether you are tracing your first 5-dot morning loop or exploring ancient temple Brahmasutra diagrams, Vinns Kolam is here to guide your hands.
