Love the spiders in your garden? Put the little critters to work for you by turning their abandoned silk webbing into thread: '
I have also encountered many abandoned webs, which gave me the idea of harvesting these out-of-use webs for their silk. Having walked into so many webs, I know how unbelievably strong and stretchy their threads are. Spider silk, in fact, is the strongest fiber ever discovered. Spider silk is stronger than steel, for its diameter; that is, a thread of steel would be weaker than a thread of spider silk of the same size.'
How to make Spider Silk Thread
(via Craft)
- Artist repairs spiderwebs, spiders say no thanks
- Canadian living in Japan makes his own silk
- Silkworm farming
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