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silkscreen

silkscreen

1 5.8
A print made by pushing ink through a screen blocked by a stencil
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪlkskriːn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : serigrafía
  • And there is also a new silkscreen print of my drawing with glow-in-the-dark ink in the works by Helen Popinchalk.
  • silkscreen print
  • silkscreen portrait
  • silkscreen workshop

Examples

  • As a result, it is what sells best that guides the choice of the items they produce: souvenirs in clay and leather, decorative pots, keychains, or silkscreen t-shirts.

    Academic text (1999)
  • I took it for granted because I could go to my mom's studio whenever I wanted and make a woodcut or silkscreen, though I didn't go often enough.

    Blog text (16)
  • The things that my father loved the most in Mexico was his silkscreen factory, and all of the people who worked there, they loved him.

  • Another of the major lots, a 1981 Andy Warhol silkscreen of Marlon.

    Blog text (27)
  • Training in silkscreen printing enabled him to experiment with color, and he also learned lettering and stenciling.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Simple one- or two-color silkscreen prints of Thai motifs for just 50 baht each.

    Blog text (4)
  • Above the couch was a framed silkscreen poster for a Polish production of Faust, the doctor's features in red, Mephistopheles in black; the face of one was the shadow of the other.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • There is mixed media, carved wood, silkscreen, woodblock prints, and found art creations, all with the Bangor region and coastal Maine as inspiration.

    Blog text (19)
  • The Botswana project has been subdivided into a leather workshop, "crafts" such as woodcarving and beadwork, a silkscreen fabric workshop, and the painting and printmaking group.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The artist displayed several vibrant silkscreen prints of marine life at the gallery.

Synonyms

serigraph
vssilkscreen
  • Specialized
1 9.0

A print you make by pushing ink through a screen blocked by a stencil

describes the same stencil screen printing process in general technical terms
silk screen print
vssilkscreen
  • Specialized
4.2

A picture created when someone pushes ink through a mesh screen onto paper or cloth

uses force to push ink through the fine mesh screen instead of light pressing

Surface Forms

silkscreen singular
silkscreens plural

Morphology

silkscreen = silk + screen (transparent) = silk + screen

A direct compound of 'silk' + 'screen' whose meaning (a screen used for printing, originally made of silk) is directly inferable from its parts.

Etymology

The word silkscreen comes from an old print tool: a piece of silk stretched over a screen that had a fine 'mesh' so ink could pass through to make a picture. So a silkscreen is the print made with that silk screen.