8 Chukkala Muggulu Simple Rangoli

Design facts

Dot grid

8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2

Video

7 min 20 s, uploaded 25 July 2022

Views

74,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw 8 Chukkala Muggulu Simple Rangoli

1. Mark the dot grid as a diamond-shaped field, with the rows tapering toward the top and bottom points.
2. In the centre draw a small four-petal flower — four teardrop petals pointing to the four diagonal corners — with a dot inside each petal.
3. Above, below and on each side of the flower draw a pair of overlapping diamonds — two squares standing on their points, the second shifted half a width along the arm so that their overlap forms a small central diamond — and divide that small diamond into a lattice of nine cells.
4. In the outer notch of each pair of diamonds draw a small pot — a rounded, dome-topped body on a flat band — pointing away from the centre.
5. On each of the four diagonals draw a curving stem from the centre flower ending in a spiral curl, and beyond it a half-flower — a spiral heart with five rounded loop petals fanning outward, framed by two long pointed leaves along its inner edges.
6. Re-trace the outlines in white.

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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