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, television and video games

  • 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
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong, a 2025 Metroidvania that has silk as a primary mechanic

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

  • Aerial silk, an apparatus used in aerial acrobatics
  • Amazon Silk, a web browser developed by Amazon for Kindle Fire
  • Corn silk, fibres in maize
  • Racing silks, racing colours worn by jockeys
  • SILK, an audio compression format and codec
  • Silk (brand), a brand of dairy-substitute products
  • Silk Engineering, a British motorcycle manufacturer
  • Spider silk, silk produced by spiders, used in making webs
  • Steel Industries Limited Kerala, a company
  • King's Counsel and Senior counsel, a class of British and Commonwealth lawyers often colloquially called "silks" because of the silk gowns they wear
  • Kajang Dispersal Link Expressway, a highway in Selangor, Malaysia

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