This cape is made from cobweb collected from one million spiders during four years

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[–]ElectricSheep 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Why though

[–]MrFloor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Cuz plebs can't have one.

[–]Jashfior[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The article that I took the picture from with more information: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/world-s-rarest-textile-made-silk-one-million-spiders-009010

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

is it bulletproof?

[–]Edge_Finder 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

spider silk is stronger than kevlar

https://amp.businessinsider.com/the-us-army-wants-to-make-spider-silk-body-armor-2016-7

lol Alex Jones was correct, Spider goats are real

https://youtu.be/IaZ10VlSoZs

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ppftt. You'll never convince 1,000,000 spiders to wear that.

[–]NaughtyUnicorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

[–]Edge_Finder 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

didnt they make some uber strong material from spider silk, or maybe it was from some caterpillar i remember reading about a fw years ago? lemme see if i can find

it was artificial spider silk

[–]Goblinf 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the most fascinating thing to me is that the spider silk is that golden colour. and captive spiders don't make it that colour. so they had to go around and find webs in the wild.