Eastern Utah Advocate | 1902-09-11 | Page 2 | New Silk from South Africa

new bilk from south africa gold and silver silk Is coming from south africa says an english uon the fibres are spun by two remarkable spiders of nho desla and an ex ert menter has found that the tho crea at tares tures may be reared in captivity nd that tho the silk can bo be utilized do boh th filaments have a brilliant metallic lus 1 ter and are very one fine and strong the of the golden bilk silk being 1 about that of the ellk worm a bread but me a strength t being much greater A thread of steel of tho the eam size in fact ba has only two birds the strength a this spiders thread