Table 4. Tensile test results of spider silk sutures of 3×60–3×120 single fibres and 1×360 native spider silk fibres.

	3×60	3×80	3×100	3×120	1×360
n	12	12	12	12	12
failure load (N)	2.99	3.61	4.86	5.92	5.89
SD	0.56	0.34	0.44	1.16	1.01
failure strain (mm/mm)	0.55	0.56	0.60	0.65	0.68
SD	0.07	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.08
failure stress (MPa)	581.0	464.5	495.1	532.2	528.3
SD	145	61.4	67.1	104.2	91.8
modulus	2.01	1.74	1.84	1.68	1.69
SD	0.75	0.28	0.19	0.38	0.27