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Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

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Would it be uneconomical to make clothes from spider silk? But I'm curious what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from.

Define economical :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Spider_Silk_Cape

This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.

So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable.

Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.

> what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from

Look it up ... there isn't one.

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