Spider silk tapestry
October 2, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under weaving and handweaving and looms
True confessions- I don’t like spiders.
Give me a butterfly, a bee, a ladybug, a dragonfly any day, but spiders…. eep… the closest I like to get to spiders is at the end of the ‘pick up the spider and take it outside‘ tool in the photo.
It’s even better if it’s my husband who is the one picking up the spider and marching it outside. erg.
Have you heard about the spider silk tapestry that is on display at the American Museum of Natural History?
Two artists, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley, have worked out a way to put spiders (special big honkin’ …read more
