12 Dots Happy New Year Muggulu

Design facts

Dot grid

12 to 2 dots — tapering from 12 dots across the middle down to 2

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Muggulu

Occasion

New Year

Video

3 min 8 s, uploaded 30 December 2023

Views

127,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 12 Dots Happy New Year Muggulu

1. Mark the 12-to-2 dot grid — rows tapering from 12 in the middle down to 2 at the top and bottom.
2. Across the middle rows write HAPPY, NEW YEAR and 2024 in three lines of plain block letters.
3. Above HAPPY draw two mirrored butterflies side by side — looped wings each holding a dot, a striped leaf-shaped body and curled antennae.
4. Place a tiny flower on each side of HAPPY and another beside the top of the 4.
5. On each side of 2024 draw a flower of three looped petals with a ringed dot at its base.
6. Below 2024 draw two larger mirrored butterflies — rounded wings looped around dots, a striped leaf-shaped wing at the middle and small spiral curls on the outer sides.

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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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