Bhogi Kundala Muggulu Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

15 to 3 dots — tapering from 15 dots across the middle down to 3

Video

6 min 17 s, uploaded 13 January 2024

Views

154,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Bhogi Kundala Muggulu Designs

1. Mark the 15-to-3 dot grid.
2. On each of the four sides draw a round pot with its mouth facing the centre, so the four pots form a cross.
3. At the mouth of each pot draw a flared rim band filled with slanted lines, with a collar of small scallops at the neck.
4. Heap three rounded mounds on each rim and fill them with white.
5. Decorate each pot body with bands of criss-cross lattice and zigzag triangles.
6. Through the centre draw two sugarcane stalks crossing as an X on the diagonals, marking the joints with short cross-lines.
7. At the end of each stalk on the four corners draw a spray of curved sugarcane leaves.

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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