silkscreen

[silk-skreen]

noun

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.
a print made by this technique.

verb (used with object)

adjective

Origin of silkscreen

First recorded in 1940–45; silk + screen