Monday 23 January 2012
It has taken eight years and more than a million Madagascar Golden Orb spiders to create a work of art "with the quality of a fairy story". And it goes on display at London's V&A museum this week.
Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley, a textile artist and a designer-entrepreneur respectively, have created a shimmering golden cape from spider silk, a fabric not woven in more than a century.
via guardian.co.uk
