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Spider Silk Cape Goes On Display

Posted by samzenpus on from the 1-million-thread-count dept.

fangmcgee writes "Before anyone asks, no, it's not bulletproof. But that doesn't mean that the glistening yellow cape—the world's largest garment made entirely from spider silk—isn't a massive feat of engineering to be marveled. Now on public display for the first time at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the textile gets its unearthly gleam from the undyed filaments of the golden orb spider, a species of arachnid commonly found in Madagascar."

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  1. Obligatory Futurama... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://theinfosphere.org/Spiderians

  2. Bulletproof? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, bulletproof would be nice, but what I really want to know is whether it'll let me block creatures with flying.

  3. Re:Washington Monument by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    when the Hallâ"Héroult process was discovered.

    Gezundheit.