Knight’s Spider Web Farm

Will is super friendly and this is an awesome rainy day activity…

Spider web art work is really cool. Definitely worth a stop if you are in the area. WWII veteran is the owner and made for interesting conversation. He brought us through the process of his «tribute to nature»

After hearing about this place, I knew right where it was in Williamstown, and I got rather excited. They have a nice website. It is easy to find, but it appeared to be abandoned??? After taking my 14 year old sister in law (visiting from Indiana) to the Statehouse and other Montpelier attractions, I figured this would be «fun». We showed up on a weekday afternoon, and there are sheds, (that you are instructed to not go near), where the spiders make their webs. I couldn’t really see anything going on. There is a house/​gift shop, also. It was unlocked, so we ventured in, and we actually got to see the «finished products», pretty underwhelming. There was no person in sight, so even if we did want to purchase or ask questions about the process, we couldn’t. I would say pass on this one.

Sugar Bear has a penchant for the unusual. In flipping through our tour book (Off the Beaten Path-​Vermont), he came upon the Spider Web Farm and immediately added it to our agenda for the following day. I have to admit, this was probably our most interesting find on our trip.
Will Knight began his business in the 1970’s as a cabinet maker. He began hobbying with spider webs by spray painting them and affixing them to recycled pieces of wood. Once laminated, these became unique works of spider art. He soon became a spider web farmer full time.
His knowledge about the spiders who weave webs on his farm is immense and he loves to share. The art is available in his store in various sizes and different shades of wood. We took home a gorgeous web on black wood.
This is a most unique farm, and definitely worth the drive to check it out.