The Spider Web and Thread
- Short article about the chemical composition, physical properties, history and applications of spider silk. From the pages of The Spider by Ed Nieuwenhuys.
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/InfoNed/webthread.html

Spider Silk
- Short classroom paper dealing with stress-strain curves and Young's modulus of spider silk. Edited by M. Beals and others.
- http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/bioed/bealsmodules/spider.html

How Spiders Work
- Comprehensive article about spider basics, structure and growth. Description of the spidersilk spinning process and web structures. From How Stuff Works. Author: Tom Harris.
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/spider.htm

Engineering Properties of Spider Silk
- Technical paper describing the engineering properties of individual fibers from spider dragline silk under uniaxial tension, transverse compression and torsional deformation. Authors: Frank K. Ko and others.
- http://www.materials.drexel.edu/fml/Classes/biomaterials/ko.pdf