SILKSCREEN


Meaning of SILKSCREEN in English

/silk"skreen'/ , n.

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.

v.t.

3. to print by silkscreen.

adj.

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

[ 1940-45; SILK + SCREEN ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .