A screen is a piece of mesh woven in a lattice which is used for the production of screen prints. The screen is stretched on a frame and the holes in areas other than the image are filled. When printing, ink is placed over this screen and forced thro

Cheesecloth is a loosely-woven, gauze-like fabric used in copper plate printing to wipe off excess ink from the plate surface. In the past, it was chiefly made of hemp but nowadays, it is usually made of rayon and other artificial fabric or cotton. C

Waste cloth is used when producing paintings and prints to clean the tools and to make plates. The cloths used are often just rags and pieces of old clothes, and can be made of various fabrics depending on what they are used for, but preferably, t

A canvas is a medium for oil painting made of cloth woven from the fibers such as flax, the top surface of which has been treated. The word can also refer to such a cloth after it has been attached to a wooden rectangle (a stretched canvas). Compa