Design facts
- Dot grid
- 5 to 1 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 1
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Video
- 10 min 41 s, uploaded 23 October 2023
- Views
- 12,000 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Muggulu Easy for Beginners
- Mark the 5-to-5 dot grid with a dot in the centre.
- Draw four hearts around the centre — one above, one below and one on each side — each with its point facing the centre dot.
- Join the point of each heart to the centre dot with a straight line to make a cross.
- Draw four diagonal lines out from the centre, one between each pair of hearts.
- At the outer end of each diagonal line draw a pointed leaf, so a leaf fills each corner between the hearts.
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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