The invention relates to the printing of sheet-heavy-pile textile materials, especially carpets, characterized in that powdered dyestuff preparations are applied to the sheet of textile material in consistency with the pattern, preferably by the screen- printing or film-printing techniques, the dye is subsequently fixed by the action of heat and any constituents of the dye preparations which are not fixed are removed by suction or by washing. The new method is economical and causes no or little pollution.