Abstract
The development of spinning technologies adapted for the processing of pure silk, collagen or elastin fibrous protein solutions made from natural and artificial fibrous protein sources is outlined. The natural silk-spinning mechanisms of spiders and silkworms are described to stress the physical and physiological requirements paramount to mimic the proper processing and spinning of pure fibrous protein solutions. Examples of the artificial production of collagen, elastin and silk fibers using wet-spinning or electrospinning technologies of pure protein solutions in different solvents as well as the properties of the materials produced are reviewed.
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