Museum of Islamic Art presents the ‘Golden Spider Silk’ exhibition that will take place until July 6th

The "Golden Spider Silk" exhibition, organised by the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), will be on display at the museum's temporary exhibition gallery on the fourth floor until July 6, 2024.  The fabrics made by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley, the founders of spider silk, are the outcome of more than 20 years of material development. The two started this ambitious initiative in 2004 to produce and create fabrics using the silk of spiders. 

For the first time, all four completed textiles will be on display during the "Golden Spider Silk" exhibition, together with antique documents and folios that detail the creation process. This contains transparent taffeta, a satin weave shawl, a brocaded weave lamba (lamba akotifahana), and an exquisitely embroidered cloak.

Simon Peers, the inventor of Golden Spider Silk, considered how each textile narrates a very modern tale, a synthesis of diverse borrowings and worldwide cultural currents. Many of their works have been on display over the years in public and private collections.

As the first top-tier museum in the area and one of the most prestigious centres of Islamic art in the world, the redesigned MIA offers visitors a more approachable, interesting, and instructive experience. Approximately one thousand items, many of which have just been purchased or preserved, are on show for the first time in the museum's permanent galleries among the works of art for which MIA is well-known.