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silk screen, n.
[f. silk n. + screen n.1]
1. A screen (screen n.1 6 b) made of silk for use in screen printing. Usu. attrib., esp. in silk screen printing, silk screen process (also absol.).
1930B. Zahn Silk Screen Methods of Reproduction 9 There is no other phase of the graphic arts which presents so many possibilities as the Silk Screen Process. Ibid. 10 A silk screen has the advantage of making a perfect imprint at low cost. 1934F. A. Baker Silk Screen Practice i. 13 The Silk Screen Process has become a necessity to all businesses that deal in colour reproduction work. 1950Atomics Jan. 22/2 The silk screen press consists simply of a piece of silk stretched wet on a frame which taughtens on drying. 1952Print (U.S.) July 1/1 André Girard..has been the first to apply silk screen to the art of making books. Silk screen has gone far in the scant thirty years of its existence. 1959Daily Mail 14 Aug. 1/3 Robert, a silk screen printer, and Rosemary, a typist, first met about eighteen months ago. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iii. 111 The ceramist may make use of silk-screen printing. 1981West Lancs. Even. Gaz. 20 Feb. 21 (Advt.), Wanted: Silk screen printer with artistic and modelling abilities.
2. A print made by the silk screen process.
1977J. Didion Bk. Common Prayer ii. ii. 59 The thin FBI man gazed over Charlotte's head at the 10′ by 16′ silk screen of Mao Tse-tung. 1979Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times 27 May (Entertainment Suppl.) 22/5 ‘Mural-sized graphics’, which will be reproduced as signed, limited-edition silk-screens.
Hence silk-screen v. trans., to print, decorate, or reproduce by the silk screen process; silk-screened ppl. a., silk-screening vbl. n.; also silk-screener, a silk-screen printer.
1961M. Jones Potbank xxv. 110 Joan..was silk-screening coffee-pots. 1967Listener 21 Dec. 829/3 Andy Warhol's carrier bag beautifully silk-screened with a Campbell's soup can. 1976Woodward & Bernstein Final Days xi. 138 As the sheer mechanics of preparing the transcripts for public consumption intensified, David Hoopes..summoned the State Department silk-screener from a baseball game. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 9/2 She worked in the farm's silk-screening shop, helping to print Christmas cards. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 34 (Advt.), Each is silk-screened several times to produce the most subtle of shading on multi-colored cotton prints. |