this textile from the silk of more than a million wild spiders is on display at the american museum of natural history in new york city.to produce this cloth, 70 people spent 4 years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the spiders. the resulting 11 X 4 foot textile is the only large piece of cloth made from natural spider silk existing in the world today.anyone who knows me knows how much i love spiders....especially the golden orbs. they are gorgeous!