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Spiber and The North Face develop synthetic spider-silk parka

09/11/2015
Spiber and The North Face develop synthetic spider-silk parka

Outdoor brand The North Face has launched a new prototype product called the Moon parka using Qmonos from Japanese textile technology developer Spiber. Spiber, a specialist in synthetic spider-silk type materials, is calling the new parka “the world’s first outerwear prototype made with Qmonos”, a spider fibroin-based protein material. The...

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