silkscreen

silkscreen

English

Etymology

silk +‎ screen

Noun

silkscreen (plural silkscreens)

1. A sheet of material (originally silk but now synthetic) with areas that are porous to ink and others that are non-porous to allow printing of images, such as on T-shirts.

Verb

silkscreen (third-person singular simple present silkscreens, present participle silkscreening, simple past and past participle silkscreened)

1. To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
   • 2007 February 6, Martha Schwendener, “Believers and Doubters, Inspired by the Word”, in New York Times‎:

     The wall text accompanying Warhol’s small canvas with 12 electric-blue crucifixes silkscreened on a black background suggests that the repetition of crosses mirrors his Campbell’s soup cans, with the religious icon serving as “a commodity to be bought and sold.”

   • 2009 January 13, Andrea Gordon, “Buying into Obama”, in Toronto Star‎:

     A year ago, if anyone had told Toronto designer Kingi Carpenter she would soon be silkscreening a U. S. president onto dresses, hoodies and scarves, she would have laughed in their face.

See also

• serigraph