silkscreen

American  

[silk-skreen] / ˈsɪlkˌskrin /

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.

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verb (used with object)

1. to print by silkscreen.

adjective

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

Etymology

Origin of silkscreen

First recorded in 1940–45; silk + screen

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

And the snarling attack dogs recall the shocking Birmingham news photographs, taken by Charles Moore, that Andy Warhol turned into silkscreens to make his “Race Riot” paintings.

From Los Angeles Times

Warhol created 14 silkscreens and two pencil illustrations based on the photo that Goldsmith had taken of Prince for Newsweek magazine in 1981, most of which were not authorized by the photographer.

From Reuters