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		superplussed on May 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforc... The most interesting part of the article for me was: "Nobody has discovered an efficient way to harvest spider silk, although not for lack of trying. " I would love to know more about these attempts. Searching google brings up doesn't help much as the keywords "mine" and "web" can have a wholly different connotation.

2muchcoffeeman on May 7, 2015 | [–]

Story of how they weaved the only spider silk rug in the world.

Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1132233...

bitwize on May 7, 2015 | [–]

The efficient way is to genetically-engineer goats to produce the silk from their teats.

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