Design facts
- Dot grid
- 8 to 2 dots — tapering from 8 dots across the middle down to 2
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 9 min 41 s, uploaded 17 February 2021
- Views
- 14,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Padmam Muggulu 8x2x2 Dots
- Mark the 8-to-2 dot grid — rows of 2, 4, 6 and 8 dots widening to the middle and narrowing again.
- Draw a small cross over a block of four dots at the top, bottom, left and right, leaving the four centre dots open.
- Turn each cross into a large flower — a spiral at the heart, broad rounded petals and two pointed sepal leaves — angling the four flowers so they turn around the centre in a ring.
- Between neighbouring flowers draw leafy stems with spiral curls, linking the four flowers into a round wreath.
- From each stem curl a fern-like tendril edged with small dots in towards the centre.
- In the centre draw a small flower with round petals and a dot in the middle.
- Shade the flower petals with white and finish the outer edge with spiral curls and pointed 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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