Sankranthi Pot Muggulu

Design facts

Dot grid

9 to 1 dots — tapering from 9 dots across the middle down to 1

Video

4 min 35 s, uploaded 13 January 2024

Views

18,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Sankranthi Pot Muggulu

1. Mark the 9-to-1 dot grid and draw a round pot in the centre with a flared neck, dividing its body into three bands with two straight lines.
2. On the mouth of the pot draw a rounded dome with pointed leaves curling out on each side.
3. Below the pot draw three large leaves — a broad one in the centre and a smaller one on each side — and mark the veins in the centre and left leaves.
4. On each side draw long sweeping petal curves from the pot out and down to the base, so the pot sits in a wide lotus.
5. On the far left and right draw a sugarcane stalk with ladder-like segments and a tuft of leaves at the top, curving down into the side petals.
6. On each side of the pot draw a small rounded bowl holding a lit diya with its flame, and a little leaf sprig beside it.
7. Fill the pot's neck with diagonal hatching, the middle band with spiral curls and the bottom band with a small lotus.

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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