Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 3 dots — tapering from 7 dots across the middle down to 3
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 4 min 19 s, uploaded 28 November 2021
- Views
- 8,221 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Pretty Flower Muggulu With 7x3x3
- Mark the 7-to-3 dot grid.
- From a single centre point draw eight radiating strokes, each ending in a small teardrop loop.
- Around them draw four broad petals — top, bottom, left and right — each pointing in to the centre on a straight spoke, and fill each with a curved criss-cross lattice.
- In the four diagonal gaps between the lattice petals draw a small square holding a tiny flower with a dot centre.
- Enclose the centre in a large circle.
- Outside the circle at the top, bottom, left and right draw a flower with a spiral heart, flanked by small curls.
- On the four diagonals, rising straight from the circle, add lily motifs of pointed petals opening outward with dot-tipped stamens at their base, and shade their petals 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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