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...

Jan Tregidgo

www.tregidgo.com/jan

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