An illustration by Charles Kendrick for Chic magazine.

Here's a 19th century ad scanned by the Boston Public Library.

"The web is spun for you with invisible threads."  From c. 1917.

We see too little spider mathematics.  Here's an equation from American Spiders and their Spinning Work by Henry C. McCook, 1889.  You can check the answer according to the techniques revealed in our Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions (+ Answers).

"After a desperately long day—tea in the garden.  Awful apparition of ancient spider, and one fell in the teapot, and we never noticed him until later."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1869.

From The History of Troop “A,” New York Cavalry U.S.V., from May 2 to November 28, 1898 in the Spanish-American War.

"The spider-doctor dropped lower and lower."  (Through the phenomenon of metempsychosis, a physician who had killed an arachnid before he died has reincarnated into the body of a spider.)  From "The Doctor's Metempsychosis,"  Cassell's, 1893.

So few ask for a spider's assistance as a pendulum.  Date uncertain.

"The spider and the tiger," c. 1890.

Here's a spider from c. 1900, Australia.

From Outing magazine, 1885.

"A little fly" from The Book of Spice by "Ginger" a.k.a. Wallace Irwin, 1906.

"Tse'-xo-be (Spider), life symbol of the Osage tribe's Hon-ga (sacred person) U-ta-non-dsi (isolated one) Gens (the earth)."  From the Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1915.