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Look up Silk or silk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Silk is a natural fibre and a textile woven from it.
Silk or Silks may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Silk (novel), a novel by Alessandro Baricco
- Silk, a novel by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Silk (group), an American R&B group
- Silk, a Philadelphia International Records funk group sampled by LF System on their number one hit "Afraid to Feel"
- Silk music, a progressive house music label founded in Moscow in 2008 and acquired in 2021 by Monstercat
Fictional characters
Film and television
People
Nickname or stage name
Surname
- Alexandra Silk (born 1963), American pornographic actress
- Anna Silk (born 1974), Canadian television and film actress
- Dennis Silk (1931–2019), British schoolmaster and international cricketer
- Garnett Silk (1966–1994), Jamaican reggae musician
- Gary Silk (born 1984), English footballer
- George Silk (1916–2004), New Zealand photojournalist
- Ilkay Silk (born 1948), Cypriot-born British and Canadian theatre artist
- Joseph Silk (born 1942), American professor and astronomer
- Mark Silk (born 1950), professor of religion in public life at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)
- Paul Silk, British civil servant
Other uses
- Amazon Silk, a web browser developed by Amazon for Kindle Fire
- SILK, an audio compression format and codec
- Silk (brand), a brand of dairy-substitute products
- Aerial silk, an apparatus used in aerial acrobatics
- Corn silk, fibres in maize
- King's Counsel and Senior counsel, a class of British and Commonwealth lawyers often colloquially called "silks" for the silk gowns they wear
- Racing silks, racing colours worn by jockeys
- Spider silk, silk produced by spiders, used in making webs
- Steel Industries Limited Kerala, a company
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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