Dipawali Muggulu

Design facts

Dot grid

4 to 2 dots — tapering from 4 dots across the middle down to 2

Tradition

Muggulu

Video

9 min 37 s, uploaded 20 October 2023

Views

4,022 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Dipawali Muggulu

1. Mark the 4-to-2 dot grid.
2. Draw four X crosses — above, below and on either side of the centre dot — and join their arms with straight lines into a diamond around the centre.
3. Turn each crossing into a four-petal flower of looped petals.
4. Beyond each flower draw a large pointed petal — at the top, bottom, left and right — and fill its tip with a fan of short lines.
5. Join the four large petals with a double ring lined with dots, and place a spiral curl in the top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right quadrants between the flowers.
6. On the four diagonals outside the ring draw curled leaves with spirals, and frame the tip of each large petal with notched 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

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