7-4 Interlaced Dots Muggulu

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 4 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 4

Structure

Sikku/Interlaced

Tradition

Muggulu, Sikku Kolam

Video

3 min 56 s, uploaded 8 December 2021

Views

34,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 7-4 Interlaced Dots Muggulu

1. Mark the 7-to-4 interlaced dot grid — the middle row of 7 dots, rows stepping down to 4 at the top and bottom.
2. In the centre draw a small six-pointed star around the middle dot by overlapping two triangles.
3. Around the star draw a ring of pointed lotus petals in pairs, each petal with an inner line, radiating in all six directions.
4. Enclose the flower in a large hexagon, and on each of the six corners draw a nested chevron of three lines ending in a pointed teardrop.
5. At the midpoint of each hexagon side draw a small flower of round dot-petals and flank it with a spiral curl on either side.
6. Go over the outlines in white.

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• Most Satisfying Simple Kolam
• Basic New Apartment Muggulu
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Further reading

• Shojiro Nagata, “How Many Loops Kolam Loop Pattern Consists of”, Forma 30, 9–18 (2015). doi:10.5047/forma.2015.003
• 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

• The Loop-Pattern Family
• The One-Line Problem: Euler and the Kolam
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