Is it possible to make artificial spider silk (science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

For this article I learned how difficult it is to make spider silk which I never thought of because well you know who does enough to research it. This article was about the production of artificial spider silk which is apparently incredibly hard to recreate. The reason the silk is so hard to recreate is because of the second step that is involved.The two steps that are put in to it are:1. manufacture the proteins spider silk glands use to make the silk and 2. and find a way to form the proteins into superfine threads. But despite how hard this is to do the Technical University of Munich in Germany tried to solve that by mixed the proteins with potassium phosphate like spiders then lowering the PH level of the proteins then finally applying pressure through tiny holes but that's only close to a spiders silk, they are able to make silk a fraction of in inch.