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Silk (character)
Silk (Cindy Moon), Marvel Comics spider-hero created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos, debuted in Amazing Spider-Man (2014); bitten by the same spider as Peter Parker, bunker origin, organic fingertip webbing, Silk-sense, multiple solo series, canceled Amazon TV show.
Silk (TV series)
Silk (BBC One, 2011–2014) is a British legal drama by former barrister Peter Moffat about Shoe Lane Chambers barristers Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones) competing to become Queen's Counsel, over three series ending 31 March 2014.
Silk Degrees
Silk Degrees is Boz Scaggs' seventh solo album, released February 18, 1976 on Columbia Records. It peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, won a Grammy for "Lowdown," and its session band went on to form Toto.
Silk fibroin
Silk fibroin is the main structural protein of silkworm silk, produced chiefly by Bombyx mori, long used in textiles and surgical sutures and now processed into drug delivery and tissue engineering materials.
Silk fibroin resorbable electronics
Silk fibroin resorbable electronics are electronic devices built on films of silk fibroin protein that dissolve or biodegrade after a programmable lifetime, avoiding removal surgery.
Silk glands and spinnerets
Silk glands and spinnerets are the paired abdominal organs that produce spider silk: glands secrete liquid silk protein, which hardens into thread at the spinnerets' spigots.
Silk in the Indian subcontinent
Silk production and weaving in the Indian subcontinent: India is the world's second-largest silk producer (38,913 MT; mulberry, tasar, eri, muga), while Bangladesh's Rajshahi-centered sericulture employs about 0.65 million people, mostly women.
Silk mill
A silk mill is a facility for processing silk thread into yarn or finished fabric, originating in water-powered Italian mills in the 13th century, like Lombe's Mill.
Silk reeling
Silk reeling is the sericulture process of unwinding continuous filaments from cooked silkworm cocoons and combining several into one raw silk thread wound onto a reel.
Silk Road (2021 film)
Silk Road (2021 film), also called Silk Road: Gebieter des Darknets, is Tiller Russell's Lionsgate crime thriller starring Nick Robinson as darknet drug-market founder Ross Ulbricht and Jason Clarke as a fictional DEA agent, adapted from David Kushner's Rolling Stone article, released February 19, 2021.
Silk Road (marketplace)
Silk Road was a darknet marketplace on Tor using Bitcoin, run by Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate Roberts) from February 2011 until FBI seizure on October 1, 2013; it sold mainly drugs, processed about $1.2 billion, and led to Ulbricht's 2015 life sentence.
Silk Road (丝绸之路)
The Silk Road (丝绸之路) was a network of overland trade routes linking China with Central Asia and the Mediterranean, active from the 2nd century BC to the 16th century.
Silk Road Dreamland
Silk Road Dreamland (方特丝路神画), or Fantawild Silk Road Dreamland, is a high-tech cultural theme park in Jiayuguan, Gansu, China, opened July 18, 2019 opposite Jiayuguan Pass, with 45 attractions themed on Silk Road and Great Wall culture.
Silk Road Fund
The Silk Road Fund (丝路基金) is a Chinese state-backed investment company, announced in 2014 with US$40 billion to fund Belt and Road infrastructure and energy projects.
Silk Road Medical
Silk Road Medical was a Sunnyvale, California medical device company that developed TCAR, a minimally invasive procedure to prevent stroke, and was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2024.
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor (UNESCO C 1442), inscribed 2014 by China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan: a 5,000 km Silk Roads section with 33 sites from Chang'an/Luoyang to Zhetysu, used from the 2nd century BC to the 16th century.
Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor
The Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor is a UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 2023, with 34 component sites in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan along an 866-kilometer Silk Roads route.
Silk Smitha
Silk Smitha (Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, 1960-1996), South Indian film actress of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi cinema; 1980s seduction star of over 400 films, died 1996, subject of The Dirty Picture.
Silk Sonic
Silk Sonic: American retro-soul/R&B duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, formed 2021, named by Bootsy Collins. Debut album An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021) yielded Hot 100 No. 1 "Leave the Door Open" and four 2022 Grammy wins.
Silk Spectre
Silk Spectre, two Watchmen characters by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: Sally Jupiter, original Minutemen-era heroine, and her daughter Laurie Juspeczyk, Doctor Manhattan's partner, inspired by Black Canary, Nightshade, and Phantom Lady.
Silk Stalkings
Silk Stalkings: Stephen J. Cannell's 1991–1999 American crime drama about Palm Beach, Florida homicide detectives, airing on CBS late night and USA Network, 176 episodes, cable's longest-running original drama at cancellation.
Silk Stockings
Silk Stockings (1957) is an MGM musical comedy directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, adapted from Cole Porter's 1955 Broadway musical and the 1939 film Ninotchka; Astaire's last MGM film and Mamoulian's final movie.
Silk throwing
Silk throwing: the twisting and doubling of reeled raw silk into substantial yarn by a throwster, using winding, first twist, and cleaning; historically mechanized in Italian hydraulic mills producing organzine warp thread.
Silk trade monopoly (Safavid)
The silk trade monopoly (انحصار ابریشم) was a royal policy of Safavid Iran under which Shah Abbas I made raw silk export a crown monopoly in 1619.
Silk waste
Silk waste (waste silk, silk noil, Schappe) is short, discontinuous silk fiber unfit for reeling, about 11 million tons yearly, respun into spun silk, nonwovens, and regenerated fibroin biomaterials.
Silk Way Rally
The Silk Way Rally is an international rally raid marathon for cars, trucks, and motorcycles, held since 2009 on routes across Russia and neighboring Eurasian countries with Gazprom as main partner.
Silk-producing insects of sericulture
The silk-producing insects of sericulture are the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori and saturniid moths producing tasar, eri, and muga; mulberry silk is about 90 percent of world production.
Silka Luisa
Silka Luisa is an American TV writer, executive producer, and showrunner from Miami, a Columbia MFA graduate (2011). She created and showran Apple TV+'s Shining Girls (2022), adapted from Lauren Beukes's novel, and created Blade Runner 2099 for Prime Video (2026).
SilkAir
SilkAir was a Singapore-based full-service regional airline serving secondary destinations across Asia Pacific from Changi Airport as the regional wing of Singapore Airlines until its full integration in 2021.
SilkAir Flight 185
SilkAir Flight 185 was a Boeing 737 passenger flight from Jakarta to Singapore that crashed near Palembang, Indonesia, on 19 December 1997, killing all 97 passengers and 7 crew.