silkscreen

[silk-skreen]

noun

1. 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.

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

Example Sentences

Leave in place the salute-to-embroidery interior, the Hollywood window shades and silkscreened wheels.

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I did silkscreen prints and lithographic prints of people bathing in various substances and various modes.

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Local police at the time said thieves took four silkscreen prints from the MPV Gallery in the North Brabant province and fled by car.

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Kent is depicted twice on the cover — once in her religious garb and also in an understated black outfit surrounded by her colorful silkscreen prints.

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The thieves originally took four silkscreens from Warhol's Reigning Queens series but abandoned two nearby, the gallery owner told Dutch broadcaster NOS.

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