The weaver and collectors deserve all the praise and I know they weren't paid well!!!!

I would’ve appreciated her giving more credit to all the Malagasy people who collected that silk and meticulously wove it

There's a species of golden silk spider here in FL, Nephila clavipes I think. They're immense but very timid and can hardly bite at all. The webs can stretch ten feet between trees and you the golden color where the sun hits.

Damn... I think another specie of it lives in my country. They look so identical with gold strong silk/web. We normally see it in electric wires high up in the air and huge. That's why we call it "gagambang kuryente" or in english "electric spider". If you got lucky to get it's web, as a kid, you're like the boss coz you can catch tons of dragonflies with it in the summer.

Just imagine the price...

So amazing, so beautiful. I find it fascinating that one day someone decided spider silk would make nice material, then came up with a plan to collect, spin, and weave spider silk into material. It really is amazing when you truly think about it. Thanks for such an interesting video

As a kid I’d sometimes go out in the woods with a forked stick and collect webs from this spider till I got a small layer of golden fabric (of course it wasn’t anywhere near as pure gold looking as it was just the webs all dirtily tangled together) but I recently thought about it and what other potential there might be and found myself here. Absolutely incredible

It is possible to synthesize all the elements and proteins in spider silk. It has already been done. The problem is that the spiders alter the composition of the silk proteins when they spin it with their spinnerets. It's this process that is a complete mystery to us and we have been unable to replicate this spinning process to a sufficient degree. We have been trying though. Spider silk is a holy-grail textile simply because of all its wonder properties.

If I could have one hair ribbon made from the silk, I would be so happy! What a treasure!

What an incredibly beautiful piece of work. I can't wait to see this when it comes to London.

Me: *breathes* KZfaq: You like spiders now. Here you go!

2011: Its impossible to weave spider silk! 1800: Excuse me! Hold my beer

I wonder what spider silk garments do for your stats.

Even if the silk were easy to work with. The pattern still looks absolutely impossible. What a tremendous work

This is reaaaaaaly detailed!

This is absolutely amazing and beautiful piece of work! I currently have a golden orb weaver in my pergola. I call her Goldie. I admire her everyday while she lives, as I know she could get taken by a bird any day.

It's the Spiderman's Towel

gorgeous textile.

I've been long fascinated by Golden Orb Weavers, and by the idea realized here. One little correction: the genus of Nephila, and that of Trichonephila, which are the spiders concerned here, are not primarily living only in Madagascar as it's been said in the video; that's just the species the silk of which had been used here. Golden Orb Weavers are home in the tropics and subtropics around the world, and using enough spiders you could do the same with the silk of a species from another region.

They wove two pieces-the one you see here, and the cape--it's a type of dress. When you see the model wearing it, it is so astonishingly beautiful...

wonderful textile

This textile will probably be legendary after some centuries.

Okay but this item is priceless do the Weavers and collectors should be getting an insane amount of money :/

I want a shirt made of that silk.

Stunning. It must be so light and soft. It would be good to know how many hours it took to make, whole process.

amazing!!

Those are god damn banana spiders. Had to deal with them all the time while a live in Florida. Everything they say is true about them except that they didn't really let you know how big they get. Freaking huge.

I wonder how soft it feels

Very impressive.

incredible

I don't like spiders, but now I have to overthink it. This Textile is wonderful. 🕸

my work has made kevlar and we regularly use kevlar tracers, i hate it, it absolutely demolished a ridiculous amount of cutters and scissors, so just have to constantly sharpen stuff when your weaving it, its crazy annoying cant even imagine how working with synthetic spider silk would be if they ever get it right

wooooow really amazing

the golden orb spider under the microscope the same color as a golden staphlycoccus bacteria colony! nature is truly amazing!

My god , spiderman has nothing on these incredible people. Mind boggling.

Just the silk alone would be priced through the roof.

Whoa.

it's very very strong thread

So is it stronger than steel? Tbh, when you already have the strands, weaving and brocading it is just the same like normal silk textile.

wow.

I wonder how it feels.

Will it be bulletproof?

Farming Spider Silk To make Gray genes. Shiney and Golden!

wow

How strong is it? The 10 yr old in me wants to know if it protects against arrows...

One day: Sire? "Yes?" Where the hell are the 1.2 million spiders? "...H-" We didn't even finish making the cape. "...Uh-" *Where the hell are they.* "..What do you mea-" *INCLUDING THE BIGGEST ONE.*

Why is the name of the institvte a typo on the first frame...

I want it

Was the sandmans Daughter Hope?

Came here from a wild kratts episode lol

Isn't the silk still "sticky"? Or does the stickiness disappear as the silk is processed?

must be hell of expensive

Put on bucket list: Touch and rub golden spidersilk fabric.

@crispypoohs Sticky perhaps!

Whoooooooa!

I don’t think keeping spiders in captivity is particularly hard.

gr8

Why they handle that tapestry so fragile if it's so indestructible?

Literally would have had the legendary property of being a magical garment since this would literally stop an arrow and a blade to be pierced to you sinc it is much stronger than kevlar.

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Originally from Cambodia 🇰🇭

Imagine you wearing something amazing, light,comfortable and bullet proof.

Can it stop a bullet?

I bet it cost millions.

Golden orb spiders are found everywhere in the tropics, it's a type of spider not a species.

tanka

This is crazy. We get everything from mother earth.

lol i wish

How to solve Australia's joblessness have them learn to weave this. FYI it can only be done by hand. Hahaha golden orb spiders live everywhere its hot like Australia and Brazil, they are basically domesticated having a habit of living next to Australian and not prone to biting, is nontoxic and has a reaction similar to a bee sting.

isn't this supposed to be strong enough to stop a bullet?

Sure it would be easier to use crispr and put the gene for spider silk into goats or humans for that matter, but why hasn't anyone thought about classically breeding these spiders to make it easier to produce silk by creating tamer spiders? If Russians can take a wild animal and over 60 years make it a tame household pet, seems we should be at least as capable.

W...O...W

she said "enrolled" instead of exploited

Spiders aren't endless supplies of web material. I am wary of what damage this would do to these insects in terms of being so depleted they may not be able to maintain their own webs and thus able to feed themselves. It is gorgeous, but we have other sources of gorgeous fabric materials.

damm wonder what it smells like!😞😜😎

I wanna touch it. Haha!

Weave something more useful. All that work to make it stay behind glass box just for people to watch

Thank you for showing Africa's story It pains me to wonder when Africa will own its dignity & its gifts ! 1 thing I learnt : I thought Chinese were the first and the only to know silk weaving, but apparently Malagasy also knew 🙆🏾‍♂️

I would like to mention that if ww1 didn't happen then this silk would have been a major export of Australia. Take business away from the Chinese, nope, China had stolen the silk market but only because they were a strong military power but they had focused on a huge variety of fabrics because Europe has always been obsessed with clothes. Every single generation a new style replaces the old in Europe in fact every single country in Europe had a different clothes style as such fabric creation drove European society and used about 6 different types of silks from Japanese silk to the two Indian, even Italy had their own silk industry. The attraction to spider silk was because of only 1 thing, and that is the spider silk that was once traded in the ancient would and its reference in mythology. It is the reason for why arachnia becomes a spider instead of a saturnia silk moth,fyi Europe had their own silk moth called the emperor moth.

Why the hell is it that just because these two determined rich guys living in Madagascar orchestrated this whole thing - do we simply give ALL the credit for this robes' existence to the two of them alone? They had a TON of people in Madagascar out there collecting spiders and taking silk from spiders and setting up the looms and doing the weaving and embroidering in "the spidery" as it was called and yet all anybody says is that these two rich men "made" this robe. NO, THEY DID NOT!!! In fact, I would like to know what did they even actually physically DO at all themselves to make this robe happen? WHAT exactly did they ACTUALLY do? Did THEY collect spiders? Did THEY do the weaving? Or did they just design the robe and then pay for it all? Because if they didn't DO ANY ACTUAL WEAVING or leg work for this robe then the only credit they ought to have is credit for paying for designing and orchestrating its existence. I'm so damned sick and tired of every single time a reference to this robe is ever made ONLY ever seeing the names of these two men when we know for a fact that they were NOT the ones who were primarily involved in collecting the materials for or doing any of the embroidery or weaving which ACTUALLY created the garment! When an actual orchestra plays a sonata they don't ONLY CREDIT THE CONDUCTOR any time a recording of the song is played! I want to see ALL the names of the Madigascans who ACTUALLY did the work to create this piece attached to the piece itself. These rich guys can take a hike I don't care that they have enough money to make a name for themselves on the backs of the Madigascans they hired to actually do the work. If they really cared about supporting the Madigascans they took advantage of they would have used the infamy from creating this robe to create an industry so that the people who live there that they are clearly exploiting could use the skills they learned while working on this robe to make money for themselves and provide a rare and unique substance for other artists to utilize and buy. How much per single small spool do you think such a rare 'fiber ' could generate? I am certain that it would generate an incredible amount of money for the people who now know how to collect and process it because of the time they spent working on this robe- but do you think these guys care about the people they employed just for a short amount of time? No, the only person ever mentioned is the two of them and they never created any kind of platform for the Madagascans they used and exploited to create this 'wonder of the world' they've made themselves famous for. And the only names ever mentioned are the names of these two men. It's just exploitation, and that is just some privileged eletist BS. Adding insult to injury - once they had finished exploiting all these Madagascan nationals, many of them beautiful young women in their own right, who did they have model them damned thing!!!? That's right some white women - some fair-skinned fair haired twiggy little stick figure who never had to work a hard day's labor or go hunting for f*cking SPIDERS in the FORREST to make some rich man's fantasy come true IN HER LIFE! Just a white anorexic waif barely a hair's breadth out of her own childhood to stand there and look pouty to a background of white colonial french "baroque" Esque architecture. Talk about a white privileged affluent male fantasy created on the backs of Africans none of whom are ever mentioned in the labor that created this famous one of a kind textile! It's mind-blowing. Imagine if these scumbags had created a contact for the "spidery" and all the Madagascans they exploited to make themselves famous, imagine if they had used the notoriety to create a thriving industry of raising these spiders and selling single spools of their threads at incredibly high prices which would have created a unique and high art value fiber for fine art pieces all over the world which would have supported these people who did all the work of going out and collecting millions of spiders over eight years for these two creeps and their fantasy project!? Imagine if it had created a situation that boosted the economy of Madagascar and helped to support people who then were able to help conservation efforts not only for the spiders there but all manner of animal in this world unique to Madagascar! Imagine if instead of some white child-woman waif as their model they had chosen an actual Madagascan woman from among the people who actually made the damn robe!!! Imagine if they had chosen an actual Madagascan background for the photoshoot! Imagine if they'd taken pictures of this robe in the actual forest where the spiders lived next to one of the spiders with a woman who actually went out every day collecting spiders for the robe!!!! But did these creeps do ANY of that? No. Because just like typical rich men who don't care at all about the people they exploit to get what they want, its just - all about them. Here are some names for you that these little blips never mention: Norosoa Ravelomahay Nathalie Robert, Martin Rakotoarimanana, Antoine Rakotoarinala. And those are the only other names I can find of the ACTUAL WORKERS who made this robe happen. But do we ever hear their names? Ever see their faces? No. Every exhibition every video clip only mentions the men with the money who employed them.

How many spiders had to die / get tortured for this ? 😕

Imagine how many spiders starved to death in the process. Humans suck!

my question is does those white people go to an African country and make the African people work for them and the white people take most of the money that comes from this, and gives the African people a lil money mm like a tip !!! I hope they didn't kill me for saying this

Demons exploiting the spider rot in hell humans