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Evening Star, Issue 19273, 11 June 1926, Page 4

The rearing of gowns from gossamer, which is now so much in evidence, was suggested in the eighteenth century. Le Bon, of Languedoc, prepared a "silk” from spiders, which was afterwards woven into gloves and stockings. Louis XIV. of France possessed a coat made of cohweh, and in 1877 the Empress of Brazil presented Queen Victoria with a dress composed entirely of cobweb, which for fineness of texture and beauty of fabric surpassed the most valuable silk. Nevertheless cobweb "silk ” is not likely to become a commercial proposition, for the voracious snider eats every day twenty-seven times its own weight of insect food, which is. of course, expensive, and produces in return onlv half a grain of "Bilk.”