silkscreen

[ silk-skreen ]

noun

1. Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
2. a print made by this technique.

verb (used with object)

1. to print by silkscreen.

adjective

1. of, made by, or printed with silkscreen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of silkscreen¹

First recorded in 1940–45; silk + screen