Design facts
- Dot grid
- 16 to 2 dots — tapering from 16 dots across the middle down to 2
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Occasion
- Sankranti
- Video
- 4 min 58 s, uploaded 12 January 2021
- Views
- 100,000 on YouTube as of 1 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Sankranti Muggulu For Competition
- Mark the 16-to-2 dot grid — rows tapering from 16 in the middle down to 2 at the top and bottom.
- In the centre draw a flower of four heart-shaped petals around a spiral, with two short dashes in each petal.
- Around the flower draw two vertical and two horizontal lines in a # shape with its centre left open, so the lines meet at four corners; join each corner to the flower with a short diagonal stem and add a small fan of rays opening outward in each corner.
- On each of the eight arms of the # draw a half-moon lobe facing its partner across the centre line, and join the outer ends of the arms in each quarter with a sweeping curve.
- At the top, bottom, left and right draw a matching four-petal flower with a spiral centre and two dashes in each petal.
- On each of the four diagonals draw a butterfly with veined wings and curled antennae.
- Finish with dotted, curling tendrils beside the outer flowers.
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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