Thread made from the spider's web is lighter and stronger than that which comes from the silkworm. In France there is a factory devoted to the manufacture of spider thread. The spiders are arranged in dozens before a reel, which withdraws the delicate threads, each spider yielding from twenty to forty yards.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 3291, 25 January 1929, Page 5
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