Design facts
- Dot grid
- 7 to 7 dots — 7 rows of 7, 49 dots
- Structure
- Dot-Grid
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Video
- 10 min 56 s, uploaded 30 December 2020
- Views
- 29,000 on YouTube as of 5 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Telugu Muggulu 7×7 Straight Dots
- Mark the 7 to 7 straight dot grid.
- In the centre draw a diamond and fill it with crosshatched lines.
- Around it draw a larger diamond divided into four diamond cells — one on each side of the centre — and draw a small six-petal flower with a dot centre in each cell.
- Extend the outer lines into an eight-pointed star with a point at the top, bottom, left and right and one on each diagonal.
- On each of the four diagonals, outside the diagonal point, draw a five-petal lotus — a pointed middle petal with a dot, flanked by two petals on each side.
- At the top, bottom, left and right points draw a bud of three loops with a spiral curl on each side.
- Fill the remaining gaps along the edges with spiral curls.
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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