Magnificent Golden Silk Cloth Made By 1 Million Spiders Is One Of The World’s Rarest Silk Textiles

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – This unique golden silk textile so magnificent you would like to buy it, but it is no ordinary cloth available in the shops. The minor workers behind this marvelous creation were as many as 1.2 million spiders!

This the largest piece of golden spider silk cloth in the world, and it goes without saying it is one of the rarest silk textiles you can come across.

A cape made from Madagascar Golden Orb spider silk exhibited at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Credit: Cmglee – Public Domain

Producing the golden silk cloth was time-demanding. It took 80 especially skilled workers three years and thousands of working hours to create this creation that was first displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York some years ago.

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