Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Occasion
- New Year
- Video
- 3 min 51 s, uploaded 13 December 2024
- Views
- 25,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 2025 Happy New Year Muggulu
- Mark the 8 to 2 dot grid.
- Across the middle write the numerals 2025 in large white strokes, two digits on each side of the centre — the 0 as a double ring, the other digits as single strokes.
- Above the numerals draw two flower clusters, one on each side: a round spiral bud, a heart-shaped bud and a small teardrop petal grouped with three pointed leaves.
- Below the numerals draw two matching clusters turned upside down so the leaves fan downward.
- Around the outer edge of each top cluster add a border of heart-shaped lobes in white outline.
- Fill the spiral buds light green, the heart buds red, blue, sky blue and pink, the teardrops yellow and the leaves green, then re-trace the numerals 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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