Design facts
- Dot grid
- 9 to 9 dots — 9 rows of 9, 81 dots
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 3 min 38 s, uploaded 17 November 2019
- Views
- 12,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw 9 Dots Gruhapravesam Muggulu
- Mark the 9-to-9 dot grid — nine rows of nine dots in a square.
- In the centre draw a small circle and ring it with a circle of dots.
- From the centre draw a long pointed petal towards each of the four sides, curl a spiral inside each petal and another spiral just beyond its outer tip.
- On each of the four diagonals draw a lotus — a pointed leaf with a midrib in the middle, a pair of curved petals on either side and a fan of scalloped petals at the corner.
- Between the lotus petals and the axial petals add small pointed leaves and spiral curls.
- Re-trace the outlines in white.
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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