Velvet is a particular kind of woven tufted fabric.

Velvet may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Velvet, one of the five main characters of Odin Sphere
  • Velvet Crowe, one of the main protagonists of Tales of Berseria
  • Velvet Hoofstrong, one of the main characters in the video game Them's Fightin' Herds

Literature

  • Velvet (magazine), a pornographic magazine
  • Velvet (novel), a 2016 novel by Palestinian author Huzama Habayeb
  • Velvet, a comic book series by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting

Music

Groups and labels

  • The Velvet Underground, a former American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City
  • The Velvets (1959–1962), a doo-wop group
  • Velvet Revolver (2002–2008), an American hard rock supergroup

Albums

  • Velvet (Wink album), 1990 album by Japanese band Wink
  • Velvet (EP), a 1992 cassette EP by the Toadies
  • Velvet (Stoney LaRue album), 2011 album by Stoney LaRue
  • Velvet (Adam Lambert album), 2020 album by Adam Lambert
  • The Velvet, a 2016 EP by Red Velvet

Songs

  • "Velvet" (Savoy song), a song by Savoy from the 1996 album, Mary Is Coming
  • "Velvet", a song by Miss Kittin from the 2002 album On the Road
  • "Velvet", a song by Fergie from the 2006 album The Dutchess
  • "Velvet" (The Big Pink song), a song by The Big Pink from the 2009 album A Brief History of Love
  • "Velvet" (Chris Jamison song), a 2014 song by Chris Jamison

Television

  • Velvet (TV channel), a women-targeted general entertainment channel
  • Velvet (TV series), a Spanish TV series
  • Velvet Colección, a spin-off of the previous
  • Velvet: El nuevo imperio, an American television series based on the Spanish TV series

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • National Velvet (film), a 1944 American film
  • Velvet (film), a 1984 American TV film
  • Velvet (musical), an Australian musical partly based on New York's Studio 54
  • Velvet (Sirius XM), a contemporary pop music channel on the Sirius XM subscription service
  • Velvet Film, a Germany-based film production company founded by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck in 1986
  • Velvet painting, a type of painting distinguished by the use of velvet (usually black velvet) as the support, in place of canvas, paper, or similar materials

Biology

  • Velvet (fish disease), a common disease of tropical aquarium fish
  • Velvet (plant), several plants in the genus Verbascum, especially V. thapsus
  • Velvet antler, a developmental stage in a deer's antlers

Other uses

  • Velvet (bus company) based in Eastleigh, near Southampton, in England
  • Velvet (dog), a dog who saved three mountain climbers on Mount Hood, Oregon
  • Velvet (music venue), an alternative music club in Rimini, Italy
  • Velvet (singer) (born 1975), Swedish singer
  • Velvet, Washington, a community in the United States
  • Velvet assembler, a set of algorithms for genomic sequence assembly
  • Velvet Divorce, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993
  • Velvet Revolution, the nonviolent overthrow of the communist government in Czechoslovakia in 1989
  • Velvet Ice Cream Company, an ice cream company in Ohio

See also

  • Velveeta, a brand name for a cheese analogue
  • Velveting, a Chinese cooking technique