Spider Silk is a new textile exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History.
The strands of over one million Nephila madagascariensis spiders were collected in Madagascar over a four-year period to produce one extremely durable, lightweight, and intricately-woven piece of cloth.The golden color to the textile is completely natural, one of seven types of silk that the spiders produce. And unlike with worms, spiders are not harmed in its collection. Each individual thread in the tapestry is composed of 96 lines of pure spider silk, and the dense, decorative brocade threads are made of up to 960!
I so wish I can go see this in New York!
(Via Apartment Therapy)
