Screen-printing

Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. A screenprint or serigraph is an image created using this technique.

History

Silk screen printing has its origins in simple stencilling, most notably of the Japanese form. The modern silk screen process originated from patents taken out by Samuel Simon in the early 1900s in England. This idea was then adopted in San Francisco, California, by John Pilsworth in 1914 who used a silk screen to form multicolor prints in much the same manner as silk screening is done today.

Related Topics:
Stencilling - Japanese - Samuel Simon - 1900s - England - San Francisco, California - John Pilsworth - 1914 - Prints

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Silk screening took off during the First World War as an industrial process for printing flags and banners. The use of photographic stencils at this time further increased the processes versatility and encouraged wide-spread use.

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