Al Jazeera reports on AI tools that can generate or reproduce traditional Indian textile designs, from a system built by Shillong professor Bitupan Deka to create new gamusa motifs, to the Rekh Sanganeri dataset of hand-block prints and Tata Consultancy Services' Bridgital Loom, which turns designs into loom instructions and is being piloted in Kanchipuram.

Artisans quoted are split: Bagru block-printer Dinesh Chhipa says he doesn't fault digital tools but asks that they stop borrowing regional names like Bagru and Jaipuri; Kanchipuram weaver Ananthalakshmi Vadivel says machine imitations "can never replace the original." The piece notes that India floated a "blanket licence" for AI training in December 2025, but that intellectual property law assumes a traceable author, while a motif is communal property.