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The silk from the golden orb spider is one of the strongest threads in the world, five or six times stronger than steel.  It is also beautiful and notoriously difficult to extract, let alone turn into beautiful tapestries.  The material is so difficult to work with that, until now, no one had ever managed to produce a piece of hand-woven, brocaded textile from their silk until now.  The brainchild of businessman Simon Peers and designer Nicholas Godley, the 11-foot-long golden-yellow tapestry is the first-ever made entirely from spider silk.

The material had been harvested in limited amounts previously, but the product of Peers and Godley’s labor took an entire team of spider handlers, over a million spiders, and lots and lots of time and attention.....

Read more at -  http://www.popfi.com/2009/09/23/spinning-silk-from-spiderwebs/