Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil.  The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink to a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of woven mesh in the open areas.

This is a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface.

A screen is made of a piece of porous, finely woven fabric stretched over a frame of aluminium. The areas of the screen are blocked off with a non-permeable material to form a stencil, which is a negative of the image to be printed; the open spaces where the ink will appear.

Silkscreen printing is the most common used method to print on garments as well as accessories.