The amount of work that has gone into making this beautiful piece of golden cloth is mindblowing. [via]
A unique piece of golden yellow silk brocade cloth, woven from spiderwebs, is on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York. To harvest enough silk to make the cloth, more than a million female golden orb spiders were collected in Madagascar, “milked” for silk, and released back into the wild. The golden spider silk was woven by Malagasy artisans into lamba Akotifahana, a type of brocade that is traditionally reserved for the aristocracy; the entire process took 4 years.
Now this is the sort of extraordinary extravagance that you’d expect of billionaires such as Roman Abramovich.
