Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 7 dots — 7 rows of 7, 49 dots
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 3 min 29 s, uploaded 4 November 2021
- Views
- 35,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Latest Muggulu 7×7 Dots Creative
- Mark the 7 to 7 dot grid — seven rows of seven dots.
- In the centre draw a square with both diagonals and a smaller square with inward-curving sides inside it to make a lattice.
- On each of the four sides draw two nested chevrons pointing in toward the centre square, the inner one touching it, then close the open side of each chevron with two rounded lobes so the pair reads as two nested hearts.
- Inside each inner heart draw a small fan of short lines, repeat the fan in the gap between the two hearts, and in the notch of each outer heart set a small pointed bud pointing outward, edged with dots.
- In each of the four corners draw a pointed-oval bud crossed by a curved arc, with dots inside it.
- Around each corner bud add three spiral curls and link the bud to the ends of the neighbouring hearts with curved lines.
- Re-trace the outlines 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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