Fiber Arts Friday – Spider Silk Tapestry
One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry Woven from Spider Silk - photo RMickens/AMNH
Have you seen this? This beautiful tapestry was made from spider silk. It took four years and over a million spiders to make. They had to recruit “spider wranglers” to “harness” the spiders to capture their silk. Odd, but fascinating! Read more about it and listen to the NPR story. The tapestry is in New York this week at the American Museum of Natural History.
I have a feeling that most of you haven’t been wrangling spiders this week. What have you been doing with fiber? Share with us below by linking your blog post to Fiber Arts Friday.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 am
Wow, I want to touch it! Four years. I don’t think I would have the patience although after the Alpaca Bunny Smackdown I am really debating about getting an angora which means I would have to wait awhile to get enough fiber…oh my sweet alpacas, in one year’s time you produce enough fiber to keep me spinning for months.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 am
That is astounding! I can’t imagine how luxurious that must be to the touch.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 am
That is absolutely amazing. Don’t you know it just feels incredible? I worked on a white Angora rabbit full length coat once that took two years to spin and knit. Thought I would go crazy before it was done.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Beautiful tapestry!
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October 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 pm
buzy little spiders-beautiful
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