it was created by simon pierce, a textile expert in the uk.i said the most number of workers, i meant 1.2 million female madagascar golden orb spiders. >> that's spider silk. >> that cape is made out of golden orb spider silk. >> wow. >> each one of them was released back into the wild unharmed. >> and it looks like they got a little bit of credit having their image woven back into the gold. >> dyed gold or comes out gold? >> it comes out gold. they produce that silk in this color. 14,000 spiders, produces only about an ounce of silk. >> that's why they needed so many. >> so many over such a long period of time. >> it involves about 80 people going out every morning, collecting spiders, the spidery, where we can extract directly from the spider, spinnerettes of the silk. >> the original person who created this weaving machine for the spiders was in the late 1800s and so they found out about it and they got the idea to make their own. this cape was done in the last eight years and it took them about four years to make. this cape is now being di

simon pierce, windsor, open. the red toy wagon company, woodstock, open. winhall market in bonneville. raw goldfinger in northfield, open. nelson's hardware right here in barry, open. the rochester cafe, open. and the list goes on and on. the lesson for vermont government in helping to grow jobs in vermont is pretty simple. getting credit to entrepreneurs when they need it most grows prosperity and grows jobs. in fact, there is nothing to stand in the way of vermont's job creators that cannot be made right by a partnership with state government that's built on a foundation of common sense, trust and expedited risk capital for businesses when others won't lend to them. vermont's response to irene perfectly illustrates the strong state of our state. perhaps the greatest lesson we can take from the challenges of the previous four months is that despite irene's devastation, despite our heartbreak and our pain, we are bound by a common purpose. we're also bound by tragic loss. to the hundreds and hundreds of vermonters who lost so much, lost their houses, lost