In future, everything you wear could be made of spider silk

NEW YORK: Dan Widmaier is taking on the apparel industry. His company, Bolt Threads, has engineered a sustainable and versatile material from synthetic spider silk that may one day be used to make iPad covers, car seats, and even clothing. According to him, synthetic spider silk is the fabric of the future.

That's because the silk fibers that insects and spiders produce in the natural world have the elasticity of a rubber band and a level of tensile strength comparable to steel. These characteristics combined make spider silk two to three times tougher than Kevlar, the material used to make bulletproof vests.