Design facts
- Dot grid
- 10 to 2 dots — tapering from 10 dots across the middle down to 2
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Motif
- Diya
- Video
- 4 min 4 s, uploaded 19 June 2019
- Views
- 17,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Latest Deepam Muggulu
- Mark the 10-to-2 dot grid.
- In the centre draw a circle with a ring of dots inside it and a solid dot in its middle.
- Around the circle draw eight petals — pointed petals at the top, bottom and sides and squared petals on the diagonals — with curved loops interlacing between them.
- On each of the four diagonals draw a diya — a rounded bowl with a teardrop flame pointing outward, fringed with short strokes.
- At the top, bottom, left and right draw a slanted bar beside a rounded square tile, set pinwheel-fashion around the flower.
- Inside each tile draw a leaf edged with short strokes.
- Colour the petals red and pink with a blue ring at the centre, the diya bowls blue and red with yellow flames, the bars dark red and the tiles yellow, then outline everything in white.
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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