Golden Spider Silk

In London again yesterday, this time dropping in to The Victoria and Albert Museum to see the Golden Spider Silks.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/g/golden-spider-silk/
This new display is of a cape and shawl woven from the silk of the Golden Spider. The silk is extracted from the spiders spinnerets, 24 spiders being harnessed into stocks each morning! Louise Bourgeois would have loved this, the stuff of macabre dreams which I feel sure would have fed into her work!
On reflection my own work this week seemed to anticipate the workings of a organic creature spinning undisturbed in a dark corner of an attic.