Charlotte’s Web

Spider’s webs really are fascinating things: long, long threads of silk thinner than a single strand of your hair, woven into geometrical patterns so delicate that a gust of wind might tear them down, and at the same time strong enough to hold a struggling fly. The web on your feely picture is very simplified, but you can still feel the geometrical pattern. In the centre is a round blank space - feel outwards from this. (Short Pause) Can you feel that there are some lines going outwards, and in between them are another set of lines joining them up? (Short Pause) Just above the centre of the web is Charlotte A Cavatica herself. She’s head downwards in the web: feel her small grey head first (Short Pause), then her diamond-shaped body above (Short Pause), and lastly her eight long, thin bent legs, four on each side of her body, stretching out across her web.