Design facts
- Dot grid
- 5 to 5 dots — 5 rows of 5, 25 dots
- Video
- 4 min 2 s, uploaded 15 January 2023
- Views
- 10,000 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Ratham Muggulu With Dots
- Mark the 5-to-5 dot grid — five rows of five dots.
- Draw a wide rectangular base along the bottom, a narrower beam across the top, and join them with two upright pillars.
- On the beam draw a triangular roof filled with a criss-cross lattice of dotted diamonds, and fill the beam with a grid of small squares, each holding a dot.
- Fill the two pillars with short horizontal bars like ladder rungs.
- Between the pillars draw a lotus with layered pointed petals and a small star flower above it.
- Fill the upper band of the base with a row of spiral curls and the lower band with a diagonal criss-cross lattice, with a dot in each diamond.
- Hang a looped tassel ornament from each end of the top beam.
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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