Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Rare spider silk












Rare spider silk textile to come to V&A

“The four metre long woven textile was made from the silk of more than a million female Golden Orb spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar.It took 80 people five years to collect the spiders, and the naturally golden hand-woven brocaded textile took over four years to create.”
Okay, that is just incredible, but I wonder what is the advantage of golden orb spider textile?
perhaps it's stronger?

 

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