And then we have silk, Thai silk.

Attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another.

Attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another.

Pyriform silk glands make the attachment cement that's the silk that's used to adhere silk lines to a substrate.

And the most studied silk line of them all major ampullate silk.

Dressed in fine silk and (also) in thick silk, facing each other,

Dressed in fine silk and (also) in thick silk, facing each other,

Wear silk socks!

And so we marvel at silk worms the silk worm you see here spinning its fiber.

Most spiders use copious amounts of silk, and silk is essential to their survival and reproduction.

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Silk is very precious.

So this material is silk.

But what, exactly, is spider silk?

Spider silk is almost entirely protein.

She is wearing gorgeous silk clothes.

Each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot, and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider, what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland. A silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside.

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There are many kinds of spider silk.

What silk biologists do is we try to relate these sequences, these amino acid sequences, to the mechanical properties of the silk fibers.

Minor ampullate silk is used in web construction.

Dressed in silk and brocade, facing one another.

Dressed in silk and brocade, facing one another.

So silk comes out of the spinnerets, and for those of us spider silk biologists, this is what we call the business end of the spider.

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But silk is versatile and it goes beyond optics.

Or if you're fashion forward, some silk LED tattoos.

So, this was the terminal point for silk route.

Their main exports are textiles, especially silk and cotton.

She is wearing a pair of white, silk socks.

Dressed in brocade and shot silk, facing one another.

Dressed in brocade and shot silk, facing one another.

robed in silk and brocade, set face to face.

robed in silk and brocade, set face to face.

Attired in fine silk and brocade, facing each other.

Attired in fine silk and brocade, facing each other.

In an orb web weaving spider, you can find seven types of silk glands, and what I have depicted here in this picture, let's start at the one o'clock position, there's tubuliform silk glands, which are used to make the outer silk of an egg sac.

So we've made a silk card with penicillin in it.

All spiders make silk at some point in their life.

There's also aciniform silk, which is used to wrap prey.

The child is wearing a belly slip made of silk.

dressed in fine silk and brocade, sitting face to face.

dressed in fine silk and brocade, sitting face to face.

Wearing garments of fine silk and brocade, facing each other.