Simple Muggulu Designs by Aishwarya

Design facts

Dot grid

9 to 9 dots — 9 rows of 9, 81 dots

Tradition

Muggulu

Difficulty

Easy

Video

3 min 17 s, uploaded 24 August 2019

Views

11,000 on YouTube as of 9 October 2026

Step by step: how to draw Simple Muggulu Designs by Aishwarya

1. Mark the 9-to-9 dot grid — nine rows of nine dots in a square.
2. In the centre draw a small square and ring the middle dot inside it with a small circle.
3. From each side of the square draw a curved petal and nest a second, longer petal around it, so four layered arms swirl around the centre like a pinwheel.
4. Wrap each arm in a large outer leaf with a scalloped edge that sweeps out to a pointed tip.
5. On each of the four corners draw a two-lobed heart-shaped bloom with a small pointed bud at the corner tip, fringed with short spikes.
6. Between the arms run thin stems out from the centre to the corner blooms and end a spiral tendril on each of the four sides.
7. Fill the outer leaves with teal, the inner petals and corner blooms with pink, each innermost petal in its own colour and the buds with blue, keeping the white dots along the outlines.

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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

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