A gown was made
from the silk of over one million spiders! It took four years, and was the idea
of an Englishman. I feel really weird about the idea that a British person is
the one that’s done this, it seems both like theft of the spider silk that
truly belongs to Madagascar, and some elements of cultural appropriation, given
that much of the allure of this garment is that it is “exotic”. The design of
the garment is definitely not british inspired, and neither is the pattern of
the embroidery. This also likely exploited the labor of all the people who
spent years collecting and refining spider silk. I’d love to discuss this in
class.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2090608/Reviving-lost-tradition-Cape-silk-million-spiders-unveiled-new-exhibition.html
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