Design facts
- Dot grid
- 16 to 6 dots — tapering from 16 dots across the middle down to 6
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Kolam, Muggulu
- Occasion
- New Year
- Video
- 4 min 48 s, uploaded 21 December 2019
- Views
- 147,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Happy New Year Muggulu 16×6 Dots Kolam
- Mark the 16-to-6 dot grid.
- Across the middle rows join the dots into the outlined block numerals 2020.
- Above the numerals draw three flowers in a triangle — two on top, one below between them — each with a small circle centre and four heart-shaped petals marked with short lines.
- Add small spiral curls in the gaps beside the flowers.
- At each end of the upper band draw a butterfly with dotted wings and a striped body.
- Below the numerals mirror the band — three circle-centred flowers, spiral curls and a butterfly at each end.
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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