11 to 6 Pongal Rangoli Muggulu Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

11 to 6 dots — tapering from 11 dots across the middle down to 6

Video

3 min 26 s, uploaded 13 January 2018

Views

715,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 11 to 6 Pongal Rangoli Muggulu Designs

1. Mark a dot grid large enough for a ring of six birds around a small centre.
2. In the centre draw a small six-petal flower around a dot.
3. Around the flower draw six birds in a ring, each with a round head, an eye and a pointed beak, the heads on the inner side and every beak pointing clockwise round the ring.
4. Curve each bird's neck into a plump body and draw a diamond on the body for the wing.
5. Taper each body to a pointed tail and add a two-lobed scalloped piece along the outer edge of the body.
6. Fill the birds in magenta, blue and orange — opposite birds in the same colour — and colour the wings, the scalloped pieces and the beaks green.
7. Colour the flower petals blue, magenta and orange and keep a white outline around every shape.

Related designs

• Beautiful Pongal Kolam
• Beautiful Dhanurmasam Muggulu 11×6
• Rose Flowers Muggulu With 11 to 6 Dots

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