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1 Million Spiders Make Rare Golden Cloth Thursday, September 24, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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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. 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. (source: wired.com)
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