With silkscreen printing, a stencil is attached to a fine piece of stretched silk or nylon cloth.
VOA: special.2009.09.02
There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush.