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Golden Spider Silk Cape
The Golden Spider Silk Cape is a unique textile woven from the silk of over 1.2 million Madagascar red-legged golden orb-weaver spiders ('' Trichonephila inaurata madagascariensis''). It has a golden hue, which is a result of the natural colouration of the spider silk. It is often regarded as the rarest textile on Earth. The cape took approximately three years to produce, and its creation required a meticulous and labour-intensive process that combined both ancient textile techniques and modern innovation. The Golden Spider Silk Cape was first publicly displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London in 2012. Creation The idea of creating textiles from spider silk dates back to 19th-century records that documented the use of spider silk in fabric production. However, this art was largely forgotten over time due to the challenges of harvesting enough silk. In 2004, Simon Peers, a British entrepreneur, and Nicholas Godley, an American textile expert, began researching a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider Silk Cape
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all Order (biology), orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 53,034 spider species in 136 Family (biology), families have been recorded by Taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomy, Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segmentation (biology), segments are fused into two Tagma (biology), tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
