Velvet (disambiguation)

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

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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• 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, the soft skin that covers a deer's antlers as they develop

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
• Velveting, a Chinese cooking technique