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silk-screen printing, multiple printing printing, means of producing reproductions of written material or images in multiple copies. There are four traditional types of printing: relief printing (with which this article is mainly concerned), intaglio, lithography, and screen process printing. ..... Click the link for more information. technique, also known as serigraphy, involving the use of stencils to transfer the design. Paint is applied to a silk or nylon screen and penetrates areas of the screen not blocked by the stencil. By using several stencils a number of colors may be employed in a single print. Silk-screen printing was developed as a commercial medium; it is used by modern artists, including Andy Warhol Warhol, Andy, 1928–87, American artist and filmmaker, b. Pittsburgh as Andrew Warhola. The leading exponent of the pop art movement and one of the most influential artists of the late 20th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. , who have combined it with photographic processes. |
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One piece, ``Dolly Pratt: Then,'' incorporates wool rug yarn, telephone wire and multicolor torn fabric strips from a silk-screen printing table in a woven pattern based on a 200-year-old coverlet. In the mornings, she operates Special Effects, a silk-screen printing company she opened in 1984. The added costs of IML may also be partially offset by eliminating the labor and processing costs for secondary labeling or silk-screen printing operations performed either in-house or at a job-shop labeling/decorating plant. |
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