Design facts
- Dot grid
- 9 to 9 dots — 9 rows of 9, 81 dots
- Video
- 3 min 8 s, uploaded 7 December 2024
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- 7,508 on YouTube as of 11 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Kunda Muggulu Sankranthi
- Mark the 9-to-9 dot grid.
- Join the central dots into a round-bellied pot with a flared neck, and run a band of crossed diagonal lines across its belly between two straight lines.
- Heap three rounded mounds on the mouth of the pot, rib the neck with slanting strokes, and set a small flower on each side of the top mound.
- Add a small spiral curl on each shoulder of the pot.
- Under the pot draw a band of pointed lotus petals with a teardrop bud in the middle.
- Below that band draw a row of curved leaves meeting at a central heart with a spiral inside, and end each side with a large spiral curl.
- On each side of the pot raise a sugarcane stalk of stacked rounded segments from the base, topped with a spray of long leaves.
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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