Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 3 min 40 s, uploaded 14 December 2019
- Views
- 3.7 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 8×2 Beautiful Small Festival Muggulu
- Mark the 8-to-2 dot grid — rows narrowing from 8 dots to 2.
- Across the middle write the numerals 2020 in thick strokes.
- Above the numerals draw a large four-petal flower with notched heart-shaped petals, a small circle at its centre and short stamen lines around it.
- Add a veined leaf on each upper side of the flower.
- Below the flower draw four small daisy flowers in a row — two on each side — and join each pair with a curving vine.
- Repeat the flower, leaves, daisies and vines below the numerals as a mirror image.
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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