Chukkala Muggulu for Sankranthi

Design facts

Dot grid

7 to 7 dots — 7 rows of 7, 49 dots

Video

5 min 41 s, uploaded 6 December 2024

Views

2.5 million on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Chukkala Muggulu for Sankranthi

1. Mark the 7-to-7 dot grid — seven rows of seven dots.
2. From the centre draw four sugarcane sticks running up, down, left and right — long narrow bars marked into segments — and fill them purple.
3. At the outer end of each stick draw a crown of curved pointed leaves and colour them green.
4. Where the sticks meet draw a four-petal flower with pointed petals on the diagonals, colour it light green and put a red dot in the middle.
5. Between the sticks on the four diagonals draw an oval Pongal pot with a scalloped neck, add a small petal flower on the body of the two upper pots, and fill the pots red, pink, magenta and orange.
6. At the outer end of each pot draw a tilted rim band in blue and heap it with rounded white bumps for the overflowing rice.
7. Outline every shape in white to finish.

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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