As Andy White went into his costume jewelry barn to feed a pig, he was distracted by a gray spider spinning a web. Working hard, that barn spider produced strands of silk stronger than similarly-sized strands of steel. How could such a thing be?Not long before he watched the spider, one of Whites pigs had died. Distraught, he wrote an essay called Death of a Pig. His sadness is reflected in words like these:He had evidently become precious to me …

So … what if it were possible for White to write a costume jewelry for the pig who took sick and died? And … what if a spider, whom costume jewelry, became part of the story?costume jewelry