Design facts
- Dot grid
- 5 to 1 dots — tapering from 5 dots across the middle down to 1
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Video
- 2 min 28 s, uploaded 29 June 2019
- Views
- 15,000 on YouTube as of 7 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Simple Nemali Muggulu With Chukkalu
- Mark the 5-to-1 dot grid — rows tapering from 5 dots down to a single dot.
- In the centre draw a diya bowl with a tall flame rising from it and a small teardrop inside the flame.
- On each side of the diya draw a peacock facing outwards — curved neck, round eye, pointed beak and a crest of curling spirals above the head.
- Sweep each peacock's body down and under the diya bowl, decorate it with a row of small dots, and add a small half-circle edged with dots at the base of the bowl.
- Below the bowl draw a pointed leaf with a spiral inside, then fan four pointed tail feathers out on each side to form a lotus-shaped base.
- Ring the flame with short white rays, then colour the flame yellow and red, the peacocks blue, the bowl pink and the feathers alternately green and pink.
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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