Sunday, 13 January 2013

Spider Silk

<http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/>

Another impressive fibre is spider silk, used by spiders for suspension or capturing other animals, it also makes a rather remarkable textile. However, quite obviously there are a lot of difficulties in extracting and processing a large amount of spider silk. It took four years, eight-two people and one million golden orb spiders to create a piece of cloth 11 foot by 4 foot. 


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