Golden Spider Silk Makes Rare Cloth
A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This is one of the most amazing things we did not know some creatures may do.
In this Article, They said that to produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the arachnids. The resulting 11-foot by 4-foot textile is the only large piece of cloth made from natural spider silk existing in the world today.
“Spider silk is very elastic, and it has a tensile strength that is incredibly strong compared to steel or Kevlar,” said textile expert Simon Peers, who co-led the project. “There’s scientific research going on all over the world right now trying to replicate the tensile properties of spider silk and apply it to all sorts of areas in medicine and industry, but no one up until now has succeeded in replicating 100 percent of the properties of natural spider silk.”
Researchers have long been intrigued by the unique properties of spider silk, which is stronger than steel or Kevlar but far more flexible, stretching up to 40 percent of its normal length without breaking. Unfortunately, spider silk is extremely hard to mass produce: Unlike silk worms, which are easy to raise in captivity, spiders have a habit of chomping off each other’s heads when housed together.
And now The world’s largest pieces of cloth painstakingly made from golden silk orb-weaver spiders will soon be on display in London.
waaaaat!!!
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That’s fucking amazing but so disgusting.
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Beautiful animals. There are many spiders that I don’t appreciate very much, but these are too pretty…
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