Design facts
- Dot grid
- 5 to 3 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 3
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 7 min 43 s, uploaded 13 March 2021
- Views
- 17,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Rangoli Designs Chinna Muggulu
- Mark the 5-to-3 dot grid.
- Join the dots with straight lines into an eight-pointed star of diamonds radiating from the centre, with a square on the top, bottom, left and right.
- Inside each of the eight star diamonds draw a pointed leaf and fill it in, so the leaves form an eight-petal flower round the centre.
- Fill each of the four side squares with a criss-cross grid of lines.
- In each of the four diagonal corners draw a spiral and wrap it in nested rounded arcs that meet the side squares, giving the outline four rounded lobes.
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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