Spider's Silk
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A two-page magazine article, reprinted from Dickens's Household Words, on early eighteenth-century attempts to use spider silk as a textile fibre. It describes M. Bon's collection of silk spiders, his cleaning, boiling and carding of their egg cocoons, and the gloves and stockings he made from the silk. It also covers M. Reaumur's objections: the thread was weaker, the lustre poorer, the spiders cannibalistic, and the yield too small. The article closes by calling spider silk an untried raw material.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- c. 1850-1851
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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