Attention, handspinners and home weavers: the bar has just been raised FOREVER.

[camwyn]

To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the arachnids. The resulting 11-foot by 4-foot textile is the only large piece of cloth made from natural spider silk existing in the world today.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

Comments

[hortorum.livejournal.com]

And it's also a handy body armour... :)

[camwyn]

Me, I was thinking 'Oh, so THAT'S how Madagascar keeps busy while they've got the port closed'....

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

*sporfle*

I tend to think "Madagascar = lemurs" rather than "Madagascar = SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING", so I didn't catch that until you mentioned it.

[newredshoes]

That? Is insanely gorgeous.

I hate posting offtopic but

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Is everything ok with your email address? I tried to email you yesterday and it kept bouncing.

Re: I hate posting offtopic but

[camwyn]

camwyn at megaloceros dot net? It's fine as far as I know. It's working this morning, certainly.

[eevieivy.livejournal.com]

Damn, indeed. That is amazing.

[weaverandom.livejournal.com]

... I.

I mean. Goddamn, that's beautiful, but.

Spiders. SPIDERS CRAWLING. ONE OF THE COMMENTERS HELPFULLY REMINDED ME THAT THOSE ARE ALL OVER BRISBANE.

*SHUTS ALL THE WINDOWS TIGHT*

ack I think i am having a panicky day, somehow.

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My first instinct was to button all the buttons on my shirt and double check the walls of my room. BIG spiders, too.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Wow. That cloth looks amazing! I wonder what it feels like...

[unmisha.livejournal.com]

What's boggling my mind (besides the firmly pressed GEEK button) is how gorgeously *golden* that fabric is. And that's the natural color!

[e-mily.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

But ;lkjas;dlkfja;slkjwsf *shudder twitch*