serigraph
(ˈsɛrɪgrɑːf, -æ-)
[irreg. f. L. sēricum silk (see Seric) + -graph.]
1. An instrument for testing the uniformity of raw silk.
| 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 62/2 A most ingenious American invention, the serigraph. |
2. An original print produced by serigraphy. orig. U.S.
| 1941 C. Zigrosser in Print Collector's Q. XXVIII. 455 A number of leading practitioners of the art..have adopted the word ‘Serigraph’ for silk screen stencil prints. 1959 Information Bull. Libr. Congr. 25 May 284 Henry Miller..has presented 7 rare ephemera to the Library. Two of them are promotional pamphlets for his Into the Night Life (1947), a serigraph or silk-screen creation. 1961 C. Zigrosser in What is Original Print? (Print Council of Amer.) 24 A number of artists who make original prints in the medium [sc. silk-screen printing] have decided to call them serigraphs to distinguish them from commercial silk screen reproductions. 1971 M. Turk Buried Life vi. 90 Sister Corita, I.H.M., one of the great contemporary printmakers whose own ‘blabs & scrawls & squiggles’ (otherwise known as serigraphs) hang in over forty museums. 1978 New York 3 Apr. 30/3 Pure color and shape in serigraphs. |
So serimeter (sɪˈrɪmɪtə(r)), an instrument for testing the strength of silk thread.