Design facts
- Dot grid
- 11 to 6 dots — tapering from 11 dots across the middle down to 6
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 3 min 23 s, uploaded 29 November 2017
- Views
- 92,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Rose Flowers Muggulu With 11 to 6 Dots
- Mark the dot grid, offsetting each row by half a step from the one above.
- In the centre draw a six-pointed star with a small round flower at its heart.
- Around the star draw six roses in a ring, each with a cube-like head built from diamonds and a spiral curl in its front face.
- Give each rose two diamond-shaped leaves and a short straight stem pointing outward.
- In the six gaps between the roses draw a small flower with a dot centre.
- Colour the roses orange, purple, magenta, yellow, red and blue, fill the star in magenta, draw the stems and small flowers in green and re-trace the outlines in 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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