Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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ASSIGNMENT 3
Assignment 3 Research Point

April 23, 2015 Assignment 3 Research Points

This research point is to investigate the diversity of style and design in textiles available to the consumer.

The diversity of style and design available to the consumer is staggering. One only has to browse magazine displays for fashion and home interior magazines to see the huge range of materials available and this is only part of the story as there are specialist textiles available for sportswear, outdoor activities, medical applications, industrial and military uses amongst others.

Some of these distinct categories of textile are experiencing cross-overs from one category to another and a blurring of the boundaries. Chloe Colchester in Textiles Today refers to this as being called the NASA effect which is “the process whereby significant innovations developed for military or aerospace industries are then re-adapted for civilian use”. Spider silk is an example of an item for which research is being undertaken for military applications and may well lead into the production of other clothing items. Kraig Biocraft Laboraties has been creating genetically engineered spider silk fibres after initial research showed that spider silk is 3 to 4 times tougher than Kevlar and with a tensile strength in the range of 1,100 to 2,900 compared to 300 – 2,000 for steel (note 1). Kraig Biocraft state that they believe that one of their developments, Monster Silk will make “significant inroads into both technical textile and mundane silk and apparel markets”.