Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam, Muggulu
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 6 min 56 s, uploaded 12 December 2021
- Views
- 731,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 8x2x2 Flower Kolam Simple Muggulu
- Mark the 8-to-2 dot grid — rows tapering from 8 in the middle down to 2 at the ends.
- In the centre draw a circle with a spiral inside it.
- From the circle draw four rounded bars in a plus shape and fill each bar with straight crosswise lines.
- Put a spiral curl in each of the four quadrants between the bars, then enclose the whole cross in an eight-pointed star outline with two spikes on each diagonal.
- On each of the four sides draw a small flower of rounded petals with dots and a curling tendril.
- From one spike of each diagonal star point sweep a long arc out to the next side flower, all four turning the same way, and edge each arc with a fringe of small dots.
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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