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blueeyes
09-24-2009, 03:59 PM
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 existing in the world today.

Read the rest here and check out the textile

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

Spider Wranglers!!! That is the job I want..... NOT! I wish I could see that cloth up close it looks amazing.
JP
09-24-2009, 10:36 PM
:eek2: :eek2: :2thumbs:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/09/spidercloth.jpg

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/09/1-spiders.jpg

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/09/3-weaving.jpg
Jaxx
09-25-2009, 08:17 AM
those things are huge! :eek2:
trackrunner
09-25-2009, 08:42 AM
[quote]To get as much silk as they needed, Godley and Peers began hiring dozens of spider handlers to collect wild arachnids and carefully harness them to the silk-extraction machine.
DiscGo
09-25-2009, 09:48 AM
Neat piece of cloth. Who paid for those 86 people to collect these spiders? I can only hope it wasn't U.S. tax dollars.
tmartenst
09-25-2009, 08:22 PM
Looks like those spiders have their heads on straighter than the ones in this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpekbnplc8
Sombeech
09-25-2009, 08:52 PM
poop damnit..... POOOOOOOOOPPPPP!!!!!!!
Cirrus2000
09-25-2009, 11:33 PM
Looks like those spiders have their heads on straighter than the ones in this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpekbnplc8

One of my fave internet videos ever! (If you grew up to "Hinterland Who's Who" on TV - like all Canadian kids did - it makes it even better.)
greyhair biker
09-29-2009, 08:50 AM
that video is some good shit man :bandit2: :smoking:
Don
09-29-2009, 07:51 PM
The crack spiders bitch. That's funny stuff, thanks.
Felicia
09-29-2009, 08:58 PM
One of my fave internet videos ever! (If you grew up to "Hinterland Who's Who" on TV - like all Canadian kids did - it makes it even better.)

I loved "Hinterland Who's Who" !!!! :2thumbs:
hank moon
09-29-2009, 10:46 PM
Looks like those spiders have their heads on straighter than the ones in this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpekbnplc8

One of my fave internet videos ever! (If you grew up to "Hinterland Who's Who" on TV - like all Canadian kids did - it makes it even better.)

Beachcombers, baby! That was the show for me!