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Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley’s Golden Spider-Silk Textile, 2008

Currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through October.

This textile is made with silk from over one million Malagasy Golden Orb spiders and contains no dyes.

It took 80 people 5 years to make the piece and it is designed to show how the silk transforms from individual strands to knots to threads to braids and then into a fully brocaded piece of fabric.

The curator described its texture as “diaphanous.”

To see a video on it’s construction and hear more information go here.