silkscreen
IPA: sˈɪɫkskrin
noun
- 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.
verb
- To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
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Examples of "silkscreen" in Sentences
- Synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas, 106 x 106 in.
- Once I learn to silkscreen I'll make one and work out mailing.
- I say "silkscreen" because I didn't use photo emulsion or screen blocker, I really used a stencil.
- The phrase helped him get his silkscreen business going, which he later expanded through the Internet.
- Shepard Fairey's Obama "Hope" silkscreen during the 2008 election captured America's yearning for a more visionary politics.
- Bo Muller-Moore uses a hand silkscreen machine to apply his phrase, which he calls an expression of the benefits of local agriculture, on T-shirts and sweatshirts.
- Rauschenberg's silkscreen collages have fetched as much as $14.6 million at auction; Christie's has priced this work to sell for between $12 million and $18 million.
- One of Urs's works I bought is a 6-by-8-foot silkscreen of a 1950s portrait of the actress Veronica Lake with a huge silver spoon placed on top of her, bisecting her face.
- Warhol's silkscreen prints were exhibited at the Jewish Community Center before moving to the Jewish Museum in New York, where they were subject to a withering review by art critic Hilton Kramer.
- The company provides fast, high-quality CD and DVD production including video editing, DVD authoring, graphic design, photo realistic and silkscreen printing, and a variety of packaging, copy protection and fulfillment services.
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