A popular and well known method of creating ornamental designs on cloth is block printing. Geometric and floral designs are printed on both sides of the cloth though these are not always the same. The colour palette is restricted to black, maroon and buff. Bagh in Madhya Pradesh is another traditional block printing centre with colour similar to Bagru: red and black. The base cloth is treated to make it receptive for printing. Ajrakh from Dhamadka in Kutch, Gujarat, is a technique by which patterning is created by resist printing. Both surfaces of the fabric are printed, with a perfect placement of blocks to make the designs on either side identical. The colours are mainly red and blue.

In spite of the intrusion of mechanical processes, synthetic dyes and chemicals, the art has survived in many regions although not in the past scale. The local artisans and people have continued to keep the art alive. In certain places it has even flourished in recent times with some modifications due to a spurt in the export market. Such fabrics have acquired a position of sophistication for some foreign buyers.