Currently on show at The Victoria & Albert Museum in London is one extraordinary garment woven of a spider’s silk. To create a length of fabric, four meters long, required the contribution of over a million female golden orb-weaver spiders, and a great many spider hunters, silk extractors. embroiderers and weavers.
Images via Dezeen & a short film concerning the designers Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley.
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what an amazing thing it is…but the spider on the third picture appears to be tortured a little?
but maybe in reality she is being fed tasty flies during the process?
beautiful! I’ll have to check this out at the V&A – thanks for sharing.
I haven’t yet been myself, but very much looking forward to seeing the tiny golden threads close up.