Discover the easy way to preserve an abandoned spiderweb in a stylish black frame

I am sure it would.

Spray paint works, though I haven’t done it since I was a kid.

Every once in a while, my mother would have the end of a rattle can, and either let my sister or myself (or her if it was high up), spray an old spider web and we would then just run a piece of paper through it. We used the cheapest construction paper, card stock, old computer paper, what ever was at hand.

The spray painted web dried on the paper, as would artist fixative, and once dry it looked nice and wasn’t sticky.

This was back when my mother would take us out to make direct botanical prints. She also took us classes on fish printing and paper making. Those are all skills that I have used more than a few times.

There is a big old spider that has a large web outside our house, and it is going to lay its eggs soon, and hide in a little nook protecting them. Both my kids talk to it in the morning as we leave. Perhaps we will save her last web before wind, leaves and time erase all but the memory of it.

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