15-1 Dots Beautiful Kolam Muggulu

Design facts

Dot grid

15 to 1 dots — tapering from 15 dots across the middle down to 1

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Kolam, Muggulu

Video

4 min 1 s, uploaded 8 October 2019

Views

17,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 15-1 Dots Beautiful Kolam Muggulu

1. Mark the 15-to-1 dot grid — fifteen dots across the middle row narrowing to one at the top and bottom.
2. In the centre draw a four-petal flower with a short stroke ending in a dot between each pair of petals.
3. On each of the four arms draw an hourglass bow — two triangles meeting tip to tip — with a spiral curl on each side of the crossing.
4. At the inner end of each bow, facing the centre, draw a small pointed bud edged with dots.
5. At the outer end of each arm draw a four-petal flower of pointed petals.
6. In each of the four diagonal corners draw a scalloped cloud shape along the outer edge, with a short stem of small leaves running from it to a half-moon bud that points to the centre.

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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

Read more

• Grids, Lattices, and Thinking in Space
• Counting the Grid
• The Kolam Style Families
• Tamil Nadu
• Andhra Pradesh and Telangana