Design facts
- Dot grid
- 10 to 10 dots — 10 rows of 10, 100 dots
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Video
- 4 min 26 s, uploaded 5 October 2019
- Views
- 86,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 10 to 10 Beginners New Muggulu
- Mark the 10-to-10 dot grid — ten rows of ten dots.
- In each quadrant draw an L-shaped line with its corner toward the centre, leaving a plus-shaped channel through the middle, then outline each L as a broad bar with dots along it.
- In the centre draw a four-petal flower with a ring and dot at its heart, fringed by short strokes.
- At the inner corner of each L draw a small spiral curl.
- Along both sides of the plus channel draw long slender curved leaves — one beside each arm of every L.
- In the outer corner of each L draw a large leaf with a central vein, side veins and a fringe of short rays at its tip.
- Re-trace all the outlines in white.
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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