Post #38532 by tikichic on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 10:57 AM

This might help you out Suburban Hipster:

Silkscreen or silk-screen - A stencil process of printmaking in which an image is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. Each color on the print has its own screen and is printed as a separate step or pass through the press. Colors are hand picked and mixed to the artists specifications. These prints are printed in editions and are signed and numbered by the artist.

Also called serigraphy and screen-printing. Andy Warhol and Robert Raushenberg used silkscreens as a means of applying paint to canvases. Also, a print made by this method, is sometimes called a serigraph.