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silkscreen processes

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silk⋅screen

[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)
3. to print by silkscreen.
–adjective
4. of, made by, or printed with silkscreen.

Origin:
1940–45; silk + screen
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