Spider Silk Courtesy of AMNH/R. Mickens
A spectacular and extremely rare textile, woven from golden-colored silk thread produced by more than one million spiders in Madagascar, goes on display Wednesday, September 23 [2009] in the [American Museum of Natural History]‘s Grand Gallery. This magnificent contemporary textile, measuring 11 feet by 4 feet, took four years to make using a painstaking technique developed more than 100 years ago.
Wired has more information about this beautiful piece of silk.
If you are in New York City, go see it for me!
Thanks, Biomes Blog!
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