Colours Muggulu With 15 by 5 Dots

Design facts

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Muggulu

Video

6 min 2 s, uploaded 14 January 2019

Views

454,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Colours Muggulu With 15 by 5 Dots

1. Lay out the dot grid as a broad rounded field.
2. In the centre draw a small diamond with a dot inside and colour it purple.
3. On each of the four sides of the diamond draw a red petal flanked by two green leaves.
4. Along the four diagonals draw sugarcane stalks — long purple bands with green joints — and crown each outer end with a tuft of green leaves.
5. On each of the four sides draw a pair of curved-neck birds mirrored so that their beaks meet, with a spiral curl on each body.
6. Colour the bird pairs — crimson and teal at the top, blue and magenta on each side, teal and crimson at the bottom — with orange beaks.
7. Outline every shape in white.

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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

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