1 Million Spiders Silk For Dress

Silk is a natural resource made from worms, and in rare cases, spiders too. This silk dress was made from the silk of 1 million golden orb spiders and took five years to harvest, prepare and make into a dress. The most impressive part is not the fact that a spider spun some awesome silk, but that the colour inherent in the dress is the natural colour of the golden orb spider’s silk – no need for synthetic dyes in this case. British art historian and, Simon Peers, and his American business partner, Nicholas Godley spent five years collecting the silk through the use of special “silting contraptions” to extract the threads. At any one time, 24 creepy crawlers were used and later released into the wild unharmed, but it takes 23,000 spiders to create only 1 ounce of silk – obviously this lengthy process could not be rushed. The garment features a delicate embroidery with spider imagery to celebrate the mythical symbolism behind the spider.