Design facts
- Dot grid
- 14 to 2 dots — tapering from 14 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Occasion
- New Year
- Video
- 4 min 9 s, uploaded 29 December 2023
- Views
- 443,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Happy New Year Muggulu 14 Dots
- Mark the 14-to-2 dot grid.
- Write HAPPY 2024 in tall capital letters down the vertical centre line.
- Write NEW YEAR across the middle so that the Y of HAPPY doubles as the Y of YEAR.
- In the top-left and top-right quadrants draw a lotus beside the letters — a central bud with a line down the middle, layered pointed petals fanning outward and a rounded cup at the base.
- In the bottom-right quadrant draw a larger lotus of layered pointed petals around a central bud, its petals fanning towards the corner.
- In the bottom-left quadrant draw a rounded bud with one large pointed petal reaching towards the lower-left corner.
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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