At first, there was smooth white linen. An insulating substance was applied to it, the composition of which was a printer's secret. After that, the linen was immersed in a vat of indigo dye. Dyed and dried linen was rinsed in acid solution and running water. It was exactly at that time that the patterns emerged on the blue background: white, visible in the places where the impregnate had been applied. The paint-repellent paste was applied to the fabric with the use of wooden blocks. The patterns carved in them were embedded with wires and plates. At the height of this method's popularity in the second half of the 19^th century, many small dye works were operating in Podhale, Spiš, Orava and the Lemko Region. Women brought their woven linen to them, determined the pattern on the basis of specimens and collected the finished fabrics. Printers were also collecting orders at fairs and marketplaces where they sold printed fabrics. The Ethnographic Museum in Krakow has more than two hundred blocks for hand printing of textiles and a printing template from the fabric painting and printing shop of Jan Buszko that used to operate in Muszyn until around 1920.