These diverging fibres, with their several contact-points, increase the steadiness of the two extremities.
The suspension-cable is incomparably stronger than the rest of the work and lasts for an indefinite time.

The web is generally shattered after the night's hunting and is nearly always rewoven on the following evening.

After the removal of the wreckage, it is made all over again, on the same site, cleared of everything except the cable from which the new network is to hang.
Once the cable is laid, in this way or in that, the Spider is in possession of a base that allows her to approach or withdraw from the leafy piers at will.

From the height of the cable she lets herself slip to a slight depth, varying the points of her fall.

In this way she obtains, to right and left, a few slanting cross-bars, connecting the cable with the branches.
These cross-bars, in their turn, support others in ever changing directions.