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Originally Posted by Dragondog
Let's say the heroes find a large area filled with spider webs, which I assume is the raw material for Giant-Spider Silk. It's quite sticky, so how can they harvest it? How much would it be worth for someone who can turn it into Giant-Spider Silk, ready to be woven into light cloth armor?
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Presumably the weaving costs are not significantly different than for any other fabric, so most of the price difference from ordinary silk (something like $500/lb in DF8, which seems rather high to me) must be the difficulty of obtaining the raw material. Incidentally spider webs (and silkworm cocoons for the matter) run a few percent of the weight of the animal, so its probably reasonable to collect $5 or $10 worth of silk per pound of giant spiders you killed or drove off.