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silkscreen - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

silkscreen (plural silkscreens)

• 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

silkscreen (third-person singular simple present silkscreens, present participle silkscreening, simple past and past participle silkscreened)

• To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
  • ✤ The wall text accompanying Warhol’s small canvas with 12 electric-blue crucifixes silkscreened on a black background suggests that the repetition of crosses mirrors his Campbell’s soup cans, with the religious icon serving as “a commodity to be bought and sold.”¹
  • ✤ A year ago, if anyone had told Toronto designer Kingi Carpenter she would soon be silkscreening a U. S. president onto dresses, hoodies and scarves, she would have laughed in their face.²

Etymology

From silk +‎ screen.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɪlkˌskɹin/

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 2007 February 6, Martha Schwendener, “Believers and Doubters, Inspired by the Word”, in New York Times ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

2. 2009 January 13, Andrea Gordon, “Buying into Obama”, in Toronto Star ‎${}^{[2]}$, archived from the original on 24 May 2010: ↩

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