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

54 points by ibobev 11 hours ago on hackernews | 6 comments

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 :)

the__alchemist | 5 hours ago

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

Dylan16807 | an hour ago

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

: zardo | 15 minutes ago
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.