Gossamer can be: · Common name for spider silk · A very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric, see textile manufacturing terminology · Gossamer A novel by Lois Lowry · Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter, found in his collection Vacuum Diagrams, and The Hard SF Renaissance anthology. · Gossamer , a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons · The Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross, both human-powered aircraft · Gossamer , Gothic rock band, active from 1995 to 2003. · The code name of the Apple Macintosh motherboards present in first-generation G3 Macs. · The Gossamer Project or Gossamer Archive, a large X-Files fan fiction archive. · Gossamer, an unreleased song by The Smashing Pumpkins · The Gossamer Strand, an instrumental song by Deadsoul Tribe from the album A Lullaby for the Devil · The gossamer rings of Jupiter