Lightning Slik

Lightning silk is made from the secretes of a large moth, called the lightning moth. The lightning moth secrete this silk for many different things. To make nests to bring in a potential mate, egg sacks, sleeping nests, a cocoon to progress from larva to full moth etc. This silk that the moth creates is a great magical conduit and resistant to much magic especially lightning magic. It is also water proof, and lightweight. The silk is also one of the stronger materials made. The fabric made from the silk will not rip or snag and requires certain needles and scissors to cut it. It can only be sewn with thread of the same silk. The silk takes dyes easily and can be dyed any color but it will always have either a white or light yellow lightning pattern on it. There are seamstress that will specialize in lightning silk because of the special scissors and needles that it requires to make the clothing.

To make the fabric there are two ways people gather the silk. One is people to go into the forests where the lightning moth lives and gathered the silk that way. This way is dangerous because predators and the poisonous trees that have spikes that the moth tends to live in. Also the moths can be aggressive and will attack, their bite is also poisonous. Those that do the gathering usually wear lightning silk with dragon leather gloves. The less dangerous way is for people to farm them and have several lightning moths and gather it from them. On these farms the moths are kept in not poisonous trees but the collectors still use dragon leather gloves to avoid the moths bites. Some farms have taken to leading the moths away from the area then gathering the silk then letting them back after the gathering has been done.
Once the silk has been gathered it is then cleaned and spun. The broken fibers are easily incorporated into the unbroken strands. This thread is then either weaved into a cloth or left as a thread and used to sew.