Silk (disambiguation)

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

• Silk (character), comic book character created by Dan Slott
• Coleman Silk, a character in The Human Stain
• Doctor Silk, a character in Ninjak
• Patera Silk, a character in The Book of the Long Sun
• Silk or Prince Kheldar of Drasnia, a character in The Belgariad and The Malloreon

Film and television

• Silk (2006 film), a Taiwanese horror film
• Silk (2007 film), a drama starring Keira Knightley, based on Alessandro Baricco's novel
• Silk (TV series), a British TV series about barristers
• Silk, a BBC Two '1991–2001' ident
• Silk (1986 film), an action film starring Cec Verrell

People

Nickname or stage name

• Silk or Jamaal Wilkes (born 1952), American former basketball player
• Steve "Silk" Hurley (born 1962), American house-music producer
• (Francis) Silk O'Loughlin (1872–1918), American Major League Baseball umpire
• Silk Smitha (Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, 1960–1996), South Indian cinema actress

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

• Robert Kilroy-Silk (born 1942), British former politician and TV presenter
• Cilk, a programming language
• Silkin, a surname
• Silkk the Shocker, American rapper
• All pages with titles beginning with Silk
• All pages with titles containing Silk