See a golden shawl made from the silk of 2 million spiders

A golden shawl made from the delicate silk of a Madagascar spider is one of the items on display later this month in an exhibition of wonders from the natural world.
Spider silk was long coveted as an alternative to Chinese silkworms before artificial fabrics were developed, but spider silk is far harder to cultivate and apart from determined efforts never took off as a fabric.
It’s not impossible though, and if you were to weave a garment, then the golden orb-weaver spiders, which are fam