The largest item of clothing woven from spider silk is a wide, full-length lady's cape with matching 4-m-long brocade scarf, woven from the bright golden-coloured silk of more than one million female specimens of the Madagascan golden orb spider Nephila madagascariensis. Taking eight years to create, the scarf bears a woven geometrical pattern, and the cape is adorned with intricate embroidered images of the golden orb spider, as well as plants and flowers, which took 6,000 hours to produce. Each day, a team of 80 workers collected thousands of spiders from their webs in the wild, and then used hand-powered machines to extract the silk from their spinnerets, after which the spiders were released unharmed. It took the silk from 23,000 spiders to weave 25 g of silk, and the cape alone contains 1.5 kg of silk. The project was masterminded by American fashion designer Nicholas Godley and British art historian and textiles expert Simon Peers, and the cape and scarf were on public display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 25 January to 5 June 2012.