The spider silk shawl The Guardian had a double page spread of a photograph of the cape on Tuesday 24th January... The two metre shawl and the richly embroidered cape are now on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum London until June 5th. It took the silk from 23,000 spiders to weave 25 grammes of silk and there are 1.5kg of silk in the cape. To produce and weave enough spider silk for both the cape and shawl took 8 years!!! There is more information with the photograph...
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