The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in gossamer folds---God's robe trailing in the sea! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907).
According to legend, this delicate thread is the ravelling of the Virgin Mary's winding-sheet, which fell to earth on her ascension to heaven It is said to be God's seam, i e God's thread Philologically it is the Latin gossipin-us, cotton
It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders
A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn
You use gossamer to indicate that something is very light, thin, or delicate. the daring gossamer dresses of sheer black lace
so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"