Design facts
- Dot grid
- 14 to 2 dots — tapering from 14 dots across the middle down to 2
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Occasion
- New Year
- Video
- 3 min 38 s, uploaded 9 December 2023
- Views
- 12,000 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 2024 New Year Muggulu
- Mark the 14-to-2 dot grid — rows stepping down two dots at a time from 14 in the middle to 2 at the top and bottom.
- Across the middle of the grid write "HAPPY" on the first line, "NEW YEAR" on the second and "2024" on the third in plain single-line letters.
- Above the lettering draw two mirrored butterflies facing each other across the centre line — each with a large dotted wing raised beside the line, a dotted wing reaching outward, a striped oval where the wings join and two curls springing from the join.
- Below the lettering draw a vertically mirrored pair of butterflies, with small curls under their wings.
- On each side of "2024" draw a leaf with a curled stem.
- Scatter small round flowers between the letters of "HAPPY", at both ends of that line and one above the "4".
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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