Wednesday, 7 November 2012

#Amazing : Clothes from spider's silk?

From this



To this:


Spiders? 

Yup. Spiders. 

It is specifically female golden orb-weaver spiders from Madagascar. To get enough silk for the cloth took nearly eight years but the as you can see, the results are pretty much amazing. It produce a rich golden yellow colour (natural colour of the spider's silk). Where Spider's silk is actually made up of chains of amino acids. In other words, it is simply a protein (Meat,fish,eggs). Yucks. 

*Find out more about the spider silk cloth in this video from the American Museum of Natural History below.  


Amazing fact about spider's silk :
  1. Spider silk is incredibly tough and is stronger by weight than steel. 5 times stronger than steel of the same diameter.
  2. Almost as strong as Kevlar (Bulletproof Vest)
  3. Finer than the human hair
  4. It remains unbroken after being stretched 2-4 times its original length









So if you find these in your house,


You know what to do !
Have a nice time.



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