silkscreenn.
/ˈsɪlkskriːn/, U.S. /ˈsɪlkˌskrin/ 1. A fine mesh, stretched in a frame and originally made of silk, through which ink is forced when producing a picture or design using screen printing; = screen n.1 23. Later also: = screen printing n.
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1930 B. Zahn Silk Screen Methods Reprod. 10 A silk screen has the advantage of making a perfect imprint at low cost.
1952 Print (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.
1990 Texas Highways Mar. 56/2 The exhibition examines the techniques and aesthetics of printmaking in four basic processes: relief (woodcut and linocut), intaglio (etching, engraving), planography (lithography), and stencil (silkscreen).
1994 Museum Year 118 24/2 Like Warhol, she [sc. Deborah Kass] used a silkscreen to paint multiple images.
2008 Art Fund 2007/2008 Rev. 130/3 From the traditional disciplines of drypoint and etching through to linoprint and silkscreen.
2. A picture or design produced using screen printing; a fabric, wallpaper, etc., bearing a screen-printed picture or design; = screen print n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > screen printing > [noun] > print
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1948 Camden (Arkansas) News 30 Sept. 16/3 Classifications of art to be shown in the exhibition will be Water Color; Oil;..and Graphic Arts, including block prints, lithographs, silkscreens, and etchings.
1981 Changing Times Nov. 76/1 The most costly silk screens ($35 to $80 a roll) are printed partially or entirely by hand.
1990 S. Kiesling Compl. Recreational Rower & Racer v. 64 Our shirts had a silkscreen of a vulture.
2015 Radio Times 22 Aug. (South/West ed.) 17/3 Warhol's Marilyn Diptych, an acrylic silkscreen that now hangs in London's Tate Modern, is a magnificent example of his classic pop style.
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C1. General attributive, as silkscreen portrait, silkscreen process, etc.
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1930 B. Zahn Silk Screen Methods Reprod. 9 There is no other phase of the graphic arts which presents so many possibilities as the Silk Screen Process.
1950 Atomics Jan. 22/2 The silk screen press consists simply of a piece of silk stretched wet on a frame which taughtens on drying.
1959 Daily Mail 14 Aug. 1/3 Robert, a silk screen printer, and Rosemary, a typist, first met about eighteen months ago.
2003 N.Y. Mag. 30 June 44/3 If it's rowdy crowds, funnel cakes, and silkscreen T-shirts you crave, there are ample choices.
2011 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 June Warhol created his two silkscreen portraits of the actress [Farrah Fawcett] in 1980.
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silkscreen print n.
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1937 Pharos Tribune (Logansport, Indiana) 22 July 7/1 (advt.) Sheer chiffon and jacket dresses! Striped tub silks! Silk screen prints! Cool sheers and marquisettes!
2015 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 5 June d5 [Roy Henry] Vickers is most known for his original silkscreen prints that often layer traditional and contemporary images and motifs in bold colours.
silkscreen printing n.
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1933 Printed Salesmanship June 245/1 Silk screen printing is adapted to many fields of work other than regular commercial printing.
2015 Herald (Harare) (Nexis) 15 Aug. Another print method is stencil-printing from which silkscreen printing (serigraphy) is derived.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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