Design facts
- Dot grid
- 9 to 9 dots — 9 rows of 9, 81 dots
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 2 min 55 s, uploaded 12 May 2020
- Views
- 7,559 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Beautiful Different Puvvula Muggulu
- Mark the 9-to-9 dot grid — nine rows of nine dots in a square.
- Around the centre dot draw a small square with scalloped, inward-curving sides, its corners on the four dots diagonally next to the centre.
- From each corner of the square start a flower pointing diagonally outward with a teardrop bud that holds a dot.
- Around each bud draw three pointed petals tipped with short fringe strokes, the middle one reaching towards the corner of the grid.
- Wrap the back of each flower in a scalloped outline that fills its corner of the grid.
- On the middle of each side of the centre square draw a teardrop petal with a dot inside, pointing outward between two flowers.
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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