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Adjective: cobwebby  'kób,we-bee
  1. So thin as to transmit light
    "a hat with a cobwebby veil";
    - diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], vapoury [Brit, Cdn], vapory [US]
     
  2. Covered with cobwebs
    "James was standing at the edge of a stack of boxes that towered up among the cobwebby rafters";
    - cobwebbed

See also: dirty, soiled, thin, unclean