Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 3 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 3
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 3 min 38 s, uploaded 8 February 2020
- Views
- 39,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Chinna Cute Muggulu Designs
- Mark the 7 to 3 dot grid — a middle row of 7 shrinking to 3 at the top and bottom.
- In the centre draw a small circle with a few stamen strokes and ring it with four rounded heart-shaped petals.
- Above, below, left and right of the flower draw a lotus — a tall pointed centre petal flanked by two curving side petals on a frilled cup base — and dot the petals with tiny stamens.
- On each of the four diagonals between the lotuses draw a pointed leaf with a spiral at its tip.
- Run a curling tendril from each lotus along the diagonal and end it in a spiral curl.
- Go over all 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
Leave a Reply