Kunda Muggulu Designs

Design facts

Dot grid

5 to 3 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 3

Tradition

Muggulu

Video

5 min 10 s, uploaded 15 December 2024

Views

5,926 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Kunda Muggulu Designs

1. Mark the 5-to-3 dot grid in the middle of the floor.
2. Around the centre dots draw a round pot with a flared rim, and heap a cloud of overflowing pongal above its mouth that curls over to the right.
3. Decorate the pot — a row of small pointed petals under the rim, a zigzag band with dots across the belly and a beaded band near the base.
4. On the left of the pot draw a bird with a curled crest, pointed beak and beaded collar, mark its body with a spiral and edge its left side with a row of small loops.
5. Under the pot draw a lotus of five pointed petals with curls in the four side petals, and hang small U-shaped loops and a drop below its lowest tip.
6. On the right of the pot draw a slender sprig with short side branches.
7. Arch a vine of green leaves, each marked with a red dot, over the top of the pot and down the right side to the lotus.
8. Colour the pot blue, the bird sky blue, the lotus pink and the sprig yellow, then re-trace all outlines 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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