It was a gray web, woven by 1,000 spiders.

Did you know, my dear, that this golden web was spun from the beards of shellfish?

So literally, you think about a rope. It has very complex structure in the weave.

This is the dragline spun by scytodes, the spitting spider.

British cloth manufacturers would import raw cotton from America and the British West Indies to Ireland, where it would be spun into yarn.