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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 soy milk
Aerial silk , an apparatus used in aerial acrobatics
Corn silk , fibres in maize
King's Counsel , a class of British 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