The art of making wooden furniture is practiced primarily in southern Gujarat. Sankheda, near Vadodara, is known for its lacquered wooden furniture. The craft of making wooden items includes rounding the wood with tools. This is followed by painting it with floral and abstract designs in bright shades of gold, silver, maroon, green, vermilion, and brown. This is done with the help of sticks dipped in a colored mixture of dyes, powdered zinc, lac and resin. Mahuva, Surat and Kutch are also famous for making lacquered furniture similar to that of Sankheda.
Apart from this, the artisans at Surat, Kutch and Saurashtra are skilled at making beautiful designs and intricate filigreed appearance of lace on wood. Rajkot is famous for its Minakari furniture and offers attractive low slung chairs, Indian style sofa sets, chairs, centre tables and settees. Wood work is also practiced at places like Jetpur, Kutch and Pethapur village of Gandhinagar district. Here you can buy old wooden blocks used for printing fabrics which can be joined into a table top, decorative screen or a partition or used as door knobs, ornamental pieces or paper weights.