Golden Spider Silk Cape

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The Golden Spider Silk Cape is a unique textile woven from the silk of over 1.2 million Madagascar red-legged golden orb-weaver spiders (Trichonephila inaurata madagascariensis). Created by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley. The textile is not dyed; the golden hue is created by light refraction, and is the natural colour of the spider silk. The cape, which has been described as one of the rarest textiles on Earth, took approximately three years to produce. Its creation required meticulous, labour-intensive processes that combined ancient textile techniques with modern innovation. The Golden Spider Silk Cape was first publicly displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London in 2012, and has gone on to feature prominently in several other museum exhibitions.

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