omgthatdress: ascoldasearth: alysian-fields: Currently on display at London’s Victoria and Albert museum is this beautiful cloak made entirely of spiders web. The Golder Orb spider from Madagascar is able to produce thread which is bright gold in colour. Using an ancient weaving technique, cloth was made which is so light that people who had the it placed in their hands while their eyes were closed were often not able to tell that they were touching it. It is, nonetheless, very strong, and the cloak can be worn. It took four years to make, using over a million spiders. It is the only specimen of this type of fabric known to exist today. A different cloth, but it proves the process.  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/ taking a break from Mainbocher to appreciate this.  We get golden orb spiders in my back yard during the springtime, maybe I should try making one!

omgthatdress:

ascoldasearth:

alysian-fields:

Currently on display at London’s Victoria and Albert museum is this beautiful cloak made entirely of spiders web. The Golder Orb spider from Madagascar is able to produce thread which is bright gold in colour. Using an ancient weaving technique, cloth was made which is so light that people who had the it placed in their hands while their eyes were closed were often not able to tell that they were touching it. It is, nonetheless, very strong, and the cloak can be worn. It took four years to make, using over a million spiders. It is the only specimen of this type of fabric known to exist today.

A different cloth, but it proves the process. 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/

taking a break from Mainbocher to appreciate this.  We get golden orb spiders in my back yard during the springtime, maybe I should try making one!

abbyjean: A photograph provided by the Government of Chiapas shows an X-ray view of the inside of a truck where some of the 513 [migrants] were found. (via X-Ray Scan Reveals 513 Migrants in 2 Trucks - NYTimes.com)

abbyjean:

A photograph provided by the Government of Chiapas shows an X-ray view of the inside of a truck where some of the 513 [migrants] were found. (via X-Ray Scan Reveals 513 Migrants in 2 Trucks - NYTimes.com)

DEBBIPETE!

browncoats:

(I just like to say the name)

Juh jen sh guh kwai luh duh jean jan

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hikergirl: This huge piece of driftwood washed up on the beach at La Push, a small community in Clallam County, Washington. La Push, surrounded by the lush forest of the Olympic National Park, is located on the northwest coast of Washington’s most westerly peninsula, at the mouth of the Quillayute River. The tree is a Sequoia Semper Virens, or Costal Redwood, only grown in Monterey, California. It would have travelled hundreds of miles before being washed up on the beach at La Push Picture: PHILLIP LACHMAN / EXCLUSIVEPIX (via Pictures of the day: 11 August 2010 - Telegraph)

hikergirl:

This huge piece of driftwood washed up on the beach at La Push, a small community in Clallam County, Washington. La Push, surrounded by the lush forest of the Olympic National Park, is located on the northwest coast of Washington’s most westerly peninsula, at the mouth of the Quillayute River. The tree is a Sequoia Semper Virens, or Costal Redwood, only grown in Monterey, California. It would have travelled hundreds of miles before being washed up on the beach at La Push

Picture: PHILLIP LACHMAN / EXCLUSIVEPIX (via Pictures of the day: 11 August 2010 - Telegraph)