Dress from the web

Victoria & Albert Museum in London, today presented to the public an amazing in its beauty and skill of a masterpiece of the art of weaving. The original outfit can be worn as an evening dress, a raincoat or cape. It is made of solid gold threads that produce orb-weaver spider in Madagascar.




1. Golden dress represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum



2. For the thread spiders were collected by hand, then specially trained people for twenty minutes they took real silk thread. After the procedure spiders affranchise.



3. All the filaments were collected on the loom are connected and formed into a web. To create this fabric took over a million spiders.



4. Bright color is a natural fabric. Embroidery, made on the dress, can be considered a work of art. Masters took 4 years to create the dress.



5. In 1709, the Frenchman Francois-Xavier Bon de Saint-Hilaire first revealed the mechanism of the conversion of the fabric of silk web.



6. In 1709, the Frenchman Francois-Xavier Bon de Saint-Hilaire first revealed the mechanism of the conversion of the fabric of silk web.



7. The unique dress will be exhibited to the public from January 25 to June 5, 2012.



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9. In total there are 2 in the world such masterpieces.



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11. The first of them, exhibited at the Museum of New York in 2009, broke all attendance records of museums and exhibitions.



Source: daypic.livejournal.com