Cherub's Blanket Blog

Two men, Simon Peers, a textile designer and researcher and Nicholas Godley, an entrepreneur, took on a project to create artistic textiles made out of spider silk.  Living in Madagascar, they worked with a silk factory to collect, spin and weave the fiber.  Their work spanned over eight years and culminated in a magnificent shawl and extravagant cape, now on display at London's Victoria & Albert Museum. 

Read more about their work here: http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-fashion/silk-million-spiders-made-this-gorgeous-cape.html