Spiders do not take well to farming, and as they are mostly teeny little creatures, they don't produce enough silk to be useful in large-scale production.

Inside the box, Sunee saw something uncommon. It was a red silk umbrella. She had never seen anything like it! "Shipping a package overseas used to take a lot of time," said Grandmother "Packages traveled by train and ship. It could take many months to get a package from across the ocean. How long did your package take to arrive?"

So the scientists got to wondering whether they could take a similar tactic to make silk even stronger.