Silk (disambiguation)
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Silk is a natural fibre and a textile woven from it.
The word silk is also used as a name for:
- Spider silk, which is made by spiders to create webs.
- Silk (soy milk), A brand of soy milk.
- Silk (group), an R&B music group.
- Kheldar, a fictional character in The Belgariad and subsequent works by David Eddings.
- An informal name for a Queen's Counsel
- Silk (film) a film starring Keira Knightley
- Racing silks, worn by horse-racing jockeys
- Patera Silk, the main character of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun
- Sushi restaurant chain in Tallinn, Estonia.
- SiLK, the trademark of a low-k dielectric resin manufactured by The Dow Chemical Company for use between the copper metal layers of integrated circuits.
- SilkTest, Borland's automated software testing tool.
- Some types of faults in gemstones, for example in rubies
- A book by Alessandro Baricco
- Silks An Aerial Dance/Circus Art
- An Indo-Jazz fusion music band comprising of Louis Banks, Karl Peters, Shankar Mahadevan and Sivamani
[edit] "Silk" as a name
- Alexandra Silk
- Doctor Silk, a fictional character in the Ninjak comic series.
- Dennis Silk
- Garnet Silk
- Gary Silk (footballer)
- George Silk
- Joe Silk
- Robert Kilroy-Silk
- Steve "Silk" Hurley, House music pioneer, remixer, songwriter, producer.