Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[first mike]

"Likewise if you are manufacturing silk nighties.
You use 40% less material. "

while that may be true for rope i dont believe that is true for garments...

Why would it not be true for garments, or why would you not believe it to be true?

In the manufacture of any textile product the amount of material used is what is needed to achieve certain desirable characteristics which vary with intended use.
Some of these characteristics are:
Strength -more is better for almost every use except toilet paper.
Weight or mass -more is better for some things, less for others.
Flexibility or Stiffness.
Impervious to water or not. -rainwear or "breathable sports clothing. Also "wicking".
Surface texture -rough or smooth.
Bulk -thick or thin.
Optical properties -Transparency / Translucency / Reflectivity / Color.

For most of today's products, from lingerie to parachutes, that employ silk or silk-like synthetics the desirable properties are thin, light weight, strong, smooth, and flexible.

Monster silk is better than common silk and synthetics in all of these properties.

Many optical and mechanical properties are modified by adding coatings and colorants.
Silk accepts and bonds to dyes and coatings better than synthetics, so reduced transparency via metallic coatings and dye color is easy where desired, transparency comes naturally.

Where greater stiffness or bulk is required, fused fiber interlinings and chaotic fiber fill are available, or those elements can be made of other materials.

For many textile products strength of the fabric is the limiting factor.
It is a truism that for a given strength of fabric proportionately less of a stronger fiber is required.

As MS becomes more available new products and new uses enabled by its greater strength will emerge.
Filters for medical and industrial fluids.
More transparent screening for those of us who live in the tropics.
More efficient snowshoes for those of us who live in the north.
Every sort of fiber reinforced product that can benefit from greater resiliency, from tennis rackets and skis to boat hulls and helmets of all varieties, maybe even your next Corvette.

Mike L.