Design facts
- Dot grid
- 10 to 2 dots — tapering from 10 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 3 min 34 s, uploaded 19 February 2025
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- 7,070 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 10 Dots Muggulu
- Mark the 10-to-2 dot grid.
- Above, below, left and right of the centre draw a large flower of four notched petals around a small ring, with two short dashes in each petal.
- In the centre draw a spiral ringed by four heart-shaped petals, with a veined leaf on each diagonal between the large flowers.
- Join the four large flowers with a circle running round the outside.
- On each of the four corners outside the circle draw a small flower — a spiral centre with a fan of rounded petals.
- On the left side draw a tall pillar of two lines filled with a row of dots, capped top and bottom with stacked bars and a small three-petal flower.
- Off the outer side of the pillar sprout curling leaves and spirals.
- On the right side draw the two upright lines of a matching pillar.
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
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