Deepa Balagopal of This and That blog tips us off to an awe-inspiring exhibit of fabric made from spider silk at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She says,
For those like me who can only watch from afar,there is alovely video showcasing the creation of this cape which took about 7 years of making and silk from 1.2 million spiders .The fabric is in itself beautiful,but the embroidery – ooh,la,la…
This is a beautiful cape and amazing that it’s made entirely of spider silk, but I can’t help feeling that clamping the spiders and withdrawing the silk directly from their spinarets is rather cruel. And this is from someone who is terrified of spiders!