Serigraphed

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Printed using a stencil process in which ink is forced through a fine mesh of silk onto a surface beneath
2. Reproduced by silk-screen printing, a technique that pushes ink through a stencilled fabric mesh onto paper or cloth
3. Produced through the silk-screen method, where a design is transferred by pressing colour through a porous stenciled screen

Etymology: "Serigraphed" is the past tense and past participle of "serigraph," meaning to print an image by pushing ink through a fine mesh stencil. The verb comes from Latin "sericum," silk, combined with Greek "graphein," to write, so the term literally means "silk writing." The name recalls the silk mesh that screen printers originally stretched across their frames. The Latin "sericum" itself derives from Greek "sērikos," meaning "of the Seres," the people of ancient China who produced silk.

Synonyms: silkscreen, screen-print