Muggulu Designs With 12×4 Dots

Design facts

Dot grid

12 to 4 dots — tapering from 12 dots across the middle down to 4

Structure

Dot-Grid

Tradition

Muggulu

Video

4 min 51 s, uploaded 6 October 2019

Views

29,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Muggulu Designs With 12×4 Dots

1. Mark the 12 to 4 dot grid — rows tapering from 12 down to 4.
2. In the centre draw a flower with a spiral in the middle and five rounded petals, a short line inside each petal.
3. Draw four more of the same spiral-centred five-petal flowers at the top, bottom, left and right, each a flower's width from the centre one.
4. Behind each of the four outer flowers draw a pair of veined leaves pointing away from the centre.
5. On each of the four diagonals, between the outer flowers, draw an arrow-head shape pointing outward.
6. Re-trace the outlines and thicken the leaf veins in white.

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• 12 to 4 Dots Kolam
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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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