Ok, there isn't really a market in it yet. The sole item produced cost over half a million dollars to make; they're hoping to sell it to a museum.
But it is beautiful.
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It took more than a million spiders and a team of Malagasy weavers. Wow.
I wish there were video of their silk extraction process.
Nice reporting and pictures at NY Times, linked above, as well as at
Discovery,
Wired.
Want to touch....
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