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François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire

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119: 172:. His report, published in 1710, was republished several times and was translated into several languages including Chinese. Bon de Saint Hilaire also made one of the first ventures into the mass-cultivation of spider silk, keeping the creatures in crates of fifty and one-hundred, only to find, upon returning after a considerable duration, that the spiders had thinned themselves out to a mere few remaining members. 22: 252: 258: 326: 118: 39: 148:
were boiled, washed and dried and the thread was collected with fine combs. By this method, he produced three pairs of spider silk stockings and gloves. He presented one pair to
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in Paris. He also claimed to have manufactured medicines from
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"Sticky Layers and Shimmering Weaves: A Study of Two Human Uses of Spider Silk"
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