silkscreen
Americannoun
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Also called silkscreen process. 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.
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a print made by this technique.
verb (used with object)
adjective
Etymology
Origin of silkscreen
Example Sentences
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He once famously helped Ruscha use Pepto-Bismol and caviar to silkscreen an image of the Hollywood sign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025
Rauschenberg's 1962 silkscreen painting Sundog is estimated to sell for between $8m and $12m.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
In 1984, Goldsmith licensed the photo to Vanity Fair, which hired Warhol to use it as the basis of a silkscreen print that would appear in the magazine.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2023
That Polaroid shoot led to 11 silkscreen portraits; one of them is now going on auction for the first time.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Women wearing House of Spice dresses leave tiny trails of cinnamon and anise and saffron, and those from the House of Inventors are outfitted in gowns covered with silkscreen pictures of their newest products.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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