A Cloth Stronger than Kevlar, Made by a Million Spiders

research worker have long known the incredible properties of silk spun by spider — fabulously potent , but elastic . Now a textile expert has woven the first cloth made all ofspider silk . The catch ? It took one million spiders to make .

material expert Simon Peers tackle the intimidating undertaking to produce the eleven by four foot cloth — the only large cloth made from spider silk . Looking at the enquiry of French missionary Jacob Paul Camboué , who designed a modest equipment subject of extracting spider silk without harm the spider , Peers progress similar auto to extract silk from Madagascar ’s female lucky orb spider , which have a naturally gold silk . The material finally lease four year and one million wanderer to produce , not to mention the dozens of wanderer handlers who collected the spiders and kept them from assault and kill one another .

While its pliant military posture , on equality with steel and Kevlar , and the power to extend to 40 % beyond its original distance without breaking , wanderer silk would have numerous practical applications if it could be harness on a large scale . But researcher have been ineffectual to duplicate the stuff , either chemically or by slip in wanderer genes into bacteria or more domesticable animals . So for now , this feat of stunt weaving is mostly an aspirational morsel of textile . It is presently on presentation at New York ’s Museum of Natural History .

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