Fabric make from silk of a Golden Orb spiders from Madagascar, an ancient technique date back over 100 years.
It cost over half a million dollars, take five year for the 51 year old, Simon Peers, a British art historian and textile expert and 40 year old, Nicholas Godley, an American fashion designer, both lived in Madagascar. Over come a few learning curve and prefect the techniques to produce a 11 feet by 4 feet, the Golden cloth brocaded with traditional Malagasy motifs and one million sixty three thousands wild Golden Orb cannibalistic female spiders from Madagascar.
wild Golden Orb cannibalistic female spiders from Madagascar.
“This unique textile draws on the legacy of a French missionary, Jacob Paul Camboué, who worked with spiders in Madagascar in the 1880s and 1890s. Previously, the only known spider-silk textile of note was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, and it was subsequently lost.”
It is 6 times stronger than steel by weight, and it very light and soft like silk, it can expand and contract like spandex.
Rare Spider Silk on Exhibit is now on displace at the at American Museum of Natural History, in the Grand Gallery, until March-2010
Read more:
Gossamer Silk, From Spiders Spun / New york times
American Museum of Natural History
Gorgeous Spider Silk Textile Now on Display / gothamist
Of spiders and silk, of silk and textiles / kitchen and residential design
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- wild Golden Orb cannibalistic female spiders from Madagascar.
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- Winding the filaments into thread.
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- Stretching of silk, 1, 5 and 20 times
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- wild Golden Orb cannibalistic female spiders from Madagascar.
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- 11 feet by 4 feet, the Golden cloth brocaded with traditional Malagasy motifs
