![Two men led a team of 80 people, spent 5 years collecting 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milked them for their silk, and created the rarest textile on Earth: A golden silk Two men led a team of 80 people, spent 5 years collecting 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milked them for their silk, and created the rarest textile on Earth: A golden silk](https://i.imgur.com/cLsaDHc.jpg)
Two men led a team of 80 people, spent 5 years collecting 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milked them for their silk, and created the rarest textile on Earth: A golden silk
![Made from the silk of more than a million spiders a unique cape will be displayed at London's V Museum | Spider silk, Silk cape, Fashion Made from the silk of more than a million spiders a unique cape will be displayed at London's V Museum | Spider silk, Silk cape, Fashion](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/99/49/4d/99494d193aac68d8c54da87b0d17f986.jpg)
Made from the silk of more than a million spiders a unique cape will be displayed at London's V Museum | Spider silk, Silk cape, Fashion
![V&A on X: "It took three years for this exquisitely brocaded shawl and cape to be made. Painstakingly harvested from more than one million female golden orb-weaver spiders, it is the world's V&A on X: "It took three years for this exquisitely brocaded shawl and cape to be made. Painstakingly harvested from more than one million female golden orb-weaver spiders, it is the world's](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUC67yLWAAIVGon.jpg)