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Harun Yahya
The Mechanism for Producing Spider Thread Is Superior to Any
Textile Machine
Spiders produce silks with
different characteristics for dif-
ferent purposes. Diatematus, for
instance, can use its silk glands to
produce seven different types of
silk—similar to production tech-
niques employed in modern tex-
tile machines. Yet those ma-
chines’ enormous size can’t be
compared with the spider’s few
cubic millimeters silk-producing
organ. Another superior feature
of its silk is the way that the spi-
der can recycle it, able to produce
new thread by consuming its
damaged web.
