After standing on the sidelines for several years while arts and crafts types took duct tape and re-purposed it to entirely new uses, major tape manufacturers have stepped up to recognize this market. The old school model of using yards of duct tape to secure cables to the floor, sometimes taping the same mic cable […]
If you’re one of the few non-believers who think there’s nothing that duct tape can’t fix, you need to take a look at this. Allabouttape.com is your source for information about the adhesive tape industry. All the news about gaffers tape, safety tapes, duct tape, vinyl tapes and new developments in tape technology. Share your comments […]
Musician Josh Grier, the leader of the band Tapes ‘N Tapes, makes sure that the tour van is equipped with lots of tape (the sticky kind) before hitting the road. The band name was born from a session of recording songs on tape, but now it’s duct tape, scotch tape and colored gaffers tape that […]
It’s tough to make a compelling video about something as mundane as duct tape, but the Duck brand of this mundane everyday product found a way. Tongal, a crowdsourcing marketing company site, was commissioned to make a video featuring Duck’s line of colored duct tapes. They came up with a video which uses a “Tron” […]
Duck brand duct tape, a ShurTech brand, has announced its 2011 Halloween Pumpkin decorating contest with a $1000 prize going to the winner. Duck Tape is promoting its Duck Tape Sheets, sheets of duct tape with peel off paper backing, as an alternative to carving pumpkins. Contest participants will decorate their pumpkins by cutting shapes […]
If you followed the somewhat dubious advice to tape over your windows in the face of last weekend’s hurricane, now you are faced with the task of getting that tape off the windows. The most common product for window taping is duct tape, and, naturally, that is one of the most difficult tapes to clean. […]
I spent yesterday afternoon driving through eastern North Carolina, one of the areas hit most heavily by hurricane Irene. All along the main highways, stores with large glass windows and doors had tape stretched from side to side, apparently to minimize flying glass if the windows were broken. According to the most recent recommendation from […]
We periodically post interesting articles about artists whose primary medium is tape. Their work is interesting, but seldom memorable and a lot of it seems to bridge the line between art and craft. Not so for the newest exhibition at Raleigh N.C.’s new Contemporary Art Museum. CAM Raleigh is featuring pieces by Texas artist Rebecca […]
Last minute preparations for the onslaught of Hurricane Irene along the East Coast have led to a spike in duct tape sales at home improvement centers like Home Depot and Lowes. While duct tape won’t keep windows from breaking in high winds or from flying debris, putting tape on the windows will prevent, or slow […]
Ongoing research at the University of Colorado-Boulder may someday lead to a safe, organic, biodegradable tape adhesive. Graphene, a material derived from wood, has proven to have very powerful adhesive qualities that may well lend themselves to the manufacture of adhesive backed tapes Graphene combines flexibility with adhesion, two very important characteristics for adhesives. You […]