silk screen

noun

|Updated on: 12 Jul 2018

Examples: silk screen in a Sentence

Definition of silk screen

: a stencil process in which coloring matter is forced onto the material to be printed through the meshes of a silk or organdy screen so prepared as to have pervious printing areas and impervious nonprinting areas; also : a print made by this process

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silk-screen

play \ˈsilk-ˌskrēn\ transitive verb

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Examples of silk screen in a Sentence

artists who work in silk screen
He decorated the office with paintings and silkscreens.

Recent Examples of silk screen from the Web

From there, a basic stencil — a skyline or the outline of a cartoon character — was applied using a silk screen and then the delicate work of airbrushing and embellishing could begin.

— refinery29.com, "How Brutal Cult Leader Tony Alamo Amassed A Fortune With Bedazzled Denim Jackets," 29 June 2018
Hermes scarves are painstakingly silk screened by hand and come in a variety of sizes.

— allison carey, cleveland.com, "Cuffs celebrates the Hermes silk scarf, meet visiting silk ambassador from Paris (photos)," 27 Oct. 2017
His silk screen prints of American cultural icons like Marilyn Monroe and paintings of Campbell Soup cans had earned him international acclaim.

— shane dixon kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, "How Andy Warhol 'hoodwinked' Oregon 50 years ago," 20 Oct. 2017

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