Did you know that vicuña sells from around $1,000 to $3,000 per yard of woven fabric? How many spiders does it take to produce one ounce of spider silk? What is Devil's cotton? What is Kapok? Did you know that it is a tree native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and tropical West Africa, and it is cultivated for the cotton-like fiber of its seed pods, called Java cotton, Java kapok, silk-cotton, Samauma, or ceiba?
Find answers to these questions along with lots of other fun fiber facts here! Impress your friends and craft buddies with how much you know!
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Longest Rabbit Fur
Franchesca the Angora rabbit of Morgan Hill, California holds the world record for longest fur on a rabbit at 14.37 inches long. Source: Guinness World Records. Photo Credit: By De Sève (dessin), C. Baquoy (gravure)/Wikimedia Commons.
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