The Banana Spider's Golden Silk Is Actually A Natural Marvel The Banana Spider's Golden Silk Is Actually A Natural Marvel It looks like gold, but it's actually spider silk. To make this single cape, silk was carefully collected from over 1.2 million golden orb weaver spiders in Madagascar. Each spider was gently milked Scallop Bandeau Sequin Mesh Maxi Dress Black Gold Goddiva The golden silk of the Golden Orb spider, native to Madagascar, is used to create extremely rare and labor intensive textiles. It takes 23,000 spiders to produce 1 ounce of silk, and a Golden silk cape made from fabric spun from over a million spiders to go on display at V&A Museum in London Mirror Online