Design facts
- Dot grid
- 10 to 2 dots — tapering from 10 dots across the middle down to 2
- Tradition
- Muggulu
- Occasion
- Ugadi
- Video
- 3 min 52 s, uploaded 21 March 2019
- Views
- 56,000 on YouTube as of 4 October 2026
Step by step: how to draw Ugadi Rangula Muggulu
- Mark the 10-to-2 dot grid — rows stepping from 2 at the top to 10 in the middle and back to 2 at the bottom.
- Down the centre column write the letters U, G, A, D and I in tall block capitals, one below the other.
- Across the middle row write U, G, A, D and I again, sharing the central A so the two words cross.
- In each of the four corners between the words draw a bird — a spiral curl for the head turned toward the centre, two teardrop petals for the body, and three pointed feathers fanning outward.
- Fringe each feather with a row of short strokes along its edge.
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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