Gossamer

Gossamer may refer to:

• Common name for very fine spider silk. By analogy used for any extremely fine thread or fabric
• A very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, see glossary of textile manufacturing#G
• Gossamer, a novel by Lois Lowry
• Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter in his collection Vacuum Diagrams and The Hard SF Renaissance anthology
• Gossamer (Looney Tunes), a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons
• The Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, both human-powered aircraft
• The code name of the motherboard used in first-generation Apple G3 Macs
• The Gossamer Project or Gossamer Archive, a large X-Files fan fiction archive
• "Gossamer", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins
• "The Gossamer Strand", an instrumental song by Deadsoul Tribe from the album A Lullaby for the Devil
• "Gossamer Thread", a song by David Gray from the album Foundling
• The gossamer rings of Jupiter
• Gossamer, a synchronized lightweight authentication protocol for RFID tags
• Gossamer, an entry-level FullSpeedAhead crankset for bicycles
• Gossamer, a song by Tombs
• Gossamer Thread, a song by David Gray
• Lycaenidae, a family of butterflies with gossamer wings, also called gossamer-winged butterflies