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by nathankot 3386 days ago
One of my friends works at a Japanese company called spiber, I think they made a jacket out of spider silk:

https://www.wired.com/2015/12/the-north-faces-moon-parka-is-...

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> North Face Will Start Selling Parkas Made from Fake Spider Silk for $1,000 [1]

...a bit pricey at this point. Maybe spider-silk-enhanced fabrics would be more reasonable.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/north-face-fake-spider-silk/