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Spider silk is remarkable, possessing an unmatched combination of reversible extensibility and high tensile strength. Furthermore, spider silk possesses highly nonlinear, anisotropic, viscoelastic behaviour which means that the properties are altered when it is mechanically deformed, hampering efforts to extract the purely linear elastic contribution. Understanding the full elastic moduli of spider silk is important in the future engineering of bioinspired materials and in understanding the fundamental behaviour behind this unique material.