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    The document describes a process for collecting spider silk from spiders to create textiles. Each morning, trained handlers collect spiders and place up to 24 spiders at a time into "silking devices" to remove their silk. Unlike silk from silkworms where the pupa is killed, the spiders are returned to the wild each evening. The document also discusses a golden cape created from silk spun by over 1.2 million female golden orb spiders that took 4 years to produce and is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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    The document describes a process for collecting spider silk from spiders to create textiles. Each morning, trained handlers collect spiders and place up to 24 spiders at a time into "silking devices" to remove their silk. Unlike silk from silkworms where the pupa is killed, the spiders are returned to the wild each evening. The document also discusses a golden cape created from silk spun by over 1.2 million female golden orb spiders that took 4 years to produce and is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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    Zoom 2012-01-01 0124 MWN

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    Anthony Johnston
    The document describes a process for collecting spider silk from spiders to create textiles. Each morning, trained handlers collect spiders and place up to 24 spiders at a time into "silking devices" to remove their silk. Unlike silk from silkworms where the pupa is killed, the spiders are returned to the wild each evening. The document also discusses a golden cape created from silk spun by over 1.2 million female golden orb spiders that took 4 years to produce and is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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    PIC1URECRAPHIC

    How80people
    collected silk
    PROCESS. To create the texti-
    les, spiders are collected
    each morning and harnes-
    sed in silking devices. Trai-
    ned handlers take out the
    silk from 24 spiders at a ti-
    me. Unlike mulberry silk
    from silkworms, in which
    the pupa is killed in its co-
    coon, the spiders are retur-
    ned to the wild at the end
    of the day. MWN
    We wanted to
    make something
    youd feel cocooned
    like a spider web...
    There is a strange
    dichotomy between
    the repulsive and
    poetic in spiders.
    SIMON PEERS, TEXTILE EXPERT & CO
    CREATOR, TOLD METRO. SIMON &
    DESIGNER NICHOLAS GODLEYS WORK
    IS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE LARGEST
    SPIDER SILK TEXTILES IN THE WORLD.
    Weavers
    at work
    JOHN BROWN
    Spider silkcape
    put ondisplay
    LONDON. This may not fit
    arachnophobes! A golden
    cape created from silk spun
    by more than a million spi-
    ders goes on display at Lon-
    dons Victoria and Albert
    Museum. The hand-woven
    garment took more than
    four years to make from the
    silk of 1.2 million female
    golden orb spiders, native
    to Madagascar. MWN
    V&A IMAGES
    Makers say spider silk is
    lighter than normal silk.
    V&A IMAGES
    Spider silk is 6 times
    stronger than steel.
    Spider silk facts
    Thousands make light work
    Oh average, 2_,ooo spIders
    are heeded Io creaIe abouI
    ohe ouhce (28g) oI sIlk.
    What Godley told Metro
    1he raw sIlk Ieels warm Ih
    your hahd, buI a bII sIIcky.
    First spider cloth in more
    than a century
    LasI creaIed Ior ParIs ExposI-
    IIoh UhIverselle Ih 1_oo.

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