After four years of persistent labor from the textile team at Godley & Peers, as well as the 1.2 million spiders, the finished one-of-a-kind cape created from golden silk spun is finally being displayed at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The cape is one of two golden spider silk textiles that exist in the world. The 13 feet long hand-woven textile was made from the silk of more than one million female Golden Orb spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar. Every morning spiders were collected by trained handlers and at the end of the work day they were returned to the wild. Adorned with images of the two-inch spider, the cape takes its colour from the silk itself, which is naturally golden.