Could spider silk be the answer to sustainable fashion?
Spider silk is the toughest known fibre, stronger, weight for weight, than high-tensile steel and Kevlar
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One of the things children of the late 21st century remark on, when looking back at people in the 2020s, is the clothes. What are they wearing, the kids ask. The issue isn’t so much the design and the peculiar fashion as the fabrics. Kids these days wear clothes made from silk – spider silk – from head to toe. They can’t imagine wearing garments that scuff and fray, that are heavy, ugly and vulnerable to dirt and acid, that exert a…
