silkscreen
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English
Etymology
Noun
silkscreen (plural silkscreens)
- 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)
- 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, archived from the original on 24 May 2010:
- 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.