Rare spider silk textile to come to V&A
To create the textiles, spiders are collected each morning and harnessed in specially conceived ‘silking’ contraptions. Trained handlers extract the silk from 24 spiders at a time.
Unlike mulberry silk from silkworms, in which the pupa is killed in its cocoon, the spiders are returned to the wild at the end of each day.
After ‘silking’, the silk is taken on cones to the silk weaving workshop where skilled weavers have mastered the special tensile properties of the silk.
In the so-called Malagasy textile, each warp is made from 96 spun strands of spider silk and each brocading weft has 10 of those threads together – so 960 strands in total.
On average, 23,000 spiders yield around 1 ounce of silk. It is a highly labour intensive undertaking, making these textiles extraordinarily rare and precious objects.
It will be shown together with a new golden cape, currently being woven and embroidered in Madagascar, at the V&A on 25 January 2012.
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Giovanni Battista Caprara meets with success several important tasks under Benedict XIV and Clément XIII, was appointed in 1801 by Pius VII legate a latere to the French Government; finds this as with the first consul the Concordat of 1801, which restores in France Catholic worship; was then Archbishop of Milan, and sacra in this city Napoleon Bonaparte King of Italy, May 26, 1805 (6 prairial year XIII).
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