Design facts
- Dot grid
- 21 to 11 dots — tapering from 21 dots across the middle down to 11
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Occasion
- Daily
- Video
- 5 min 36 s, uploaded 8 February 2019
- Views
- 75,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 21 by 11 Beautiful Daily Muggulu
- Mark the 21-to-11 dot grid — rows tapering from 21 across the middle to 11 at the top and bottom.
- In the centre draw a six-petal flower with pointed petals and a small ring in the middle.
- Around it draw a ring of six small star-petalled flowers — one above, one below and two on each side.
- Join the small flowers with a wavy vine — curved stems with a pair of pointed leaves at every bend — to make a green ring.
- On the outer ring draw six bows — each two pairs of scalloped lobes tied by crossing lines in the middle — at the upper-left, upper-right, left, right, lower-left and lower-right.
- Between the bows draw six six-petal flowers with a ring in the middle — one at the top, one at the bottom and one at each of the four diagonal corners of the hexagon.
- Colour the bows blue, the centre flower and the top and bottom outer flowers pink, the four diagonal flowers brown-orange, the small inner flowers purple and the vine green.
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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