Crossword clues for silkscreen
Wiktionary
n. 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. vb. To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
WordNet
n. a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil [syn: silk screen print, serigraph]
v. print by silkscreen
Usage examples of "silkscreen".
Imagine porous paper stretched tight under a silkscreen, healthy dollops of gold and saffron ink, smaller ones of chestnut, tiny, tiny pinpricks of some color paler than the winter sun, the sudden back-and-forth of the wedge, and while the wavy lines bleed into each other, the artist dips his fine brush in umber ink and paints on careful rosettes which spread like the ripples in a pond.
She glanced at the quilted twin beds, the framed silkscreen prints of mountain scenes, and the little round table placed under a swag lamp.
Picassos, as so many lesser artists have inadvertently done, but went right ahead and silkscreened multiples of the King.
Fifties nostalgia skips right over him, and Andy Warhol never silkscreened his portrait.
Even drew a tiny, stylized hummer for stationery, envelopes, and cards and had it silkscreened onto the sweatshirts she often wore as she sat in front of the computer, daily attending to details of the business (cottage industries, they used to call them) that kept us comfortable here.