A Golden Spider-Silk Textile at the Art Institute of Chicago
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Uploaded on Jun 6, 2011
Get a behind-the-scenes look at this history and creation of this dazzling textile—the only one of its kind in the world—made from the strands of silk from over one million of Madagascar's golden orb spiders. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago through October 2011.
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Top Comments
Ben Watson 1 year ago
thing is... I like the look of it. Now I want to touch and feel it
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ArcherR85 1 year ago
gorgeous textile.
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All Comments (23)
SpenzOT 7 months ago
It is possible to synthesize all the elements and proteins in spider silk. It has already been done. The problem is that the spiders alter the composition of the silk proteins when they spin it with their spinnerets. It's this process that is a complete mystery to us and we have been unable to replicate this spinning process to a sufficient degree. We have been trying though. Spider silk is a holy-grail textile simply because of all its wonder properties.
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john mckay 7 months ago
lol i wish
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CrescendoZen 10 months ago
Is it possible to synthesize it chemically
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CrescendoZen 10 months ago
Do people not make shirts from spider silk?
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IspankDragons 10 months ago
I wanna touch it. Haha!
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FossilArts 11 months ago
1:43 What is that place called?
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RebelHQ 11 months ago
wow that's amazing.
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Jonathan Wojcik 1 year ago
There's a species of golden silk spider here in FL, Nephila clavipes I think. They're immense but very timid and can hardly bite at all. The webs can stretch ten feet between trees and you the golden color where the sun hits.
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aleramone23 1 year ago
must be hell of expensive
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nkaneti 1 year ago
very interesting, thanks so much for posting
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