Using everyday plastic objects carefully arranged in the sea, photographer Kim Preston creates a powerful commentary about pollution in her series Plastic Pacific. Using gaffers tape and double-sided tape, Preston is able to make the plastic pieces look like sealife such as jellyfish, polyps, and fish. To see the photographs, click here. […]
Get creative with your gift wrapping this year. Try wrapping a package with a brown paper bag or a white box and ribbon-layering with colored tape, it’s easy and looks great! Here are some ways you can do it. Allabouttape.com is your source for information about the adhesive tape industry.
Anybody who has sliced thru a boxed item while trying to turn a shipping carton into a point-of-sale display will appreciate this new carton sealing tape from Adalis. Sesame Tape, as in “Open Sesame” makes the box cutter obsolete. It is a two tape system that will allow a shipping carton to be opened in […]
Scott Dorsey, an independent broadcast engineer from Williamsburg VA wirtes in RWonline.com, the web site for Radio World, that duct tape is not the appropriate solution for color coding electrical cables in electrical panels. Dorsey recommends that his fellow engineers choose gaffers tape instead, since it is less prone to leave adhesive residue, even when […]
American Eagle, a clothing retailer found at malls from coast to coast, chose the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in California as inspiration for its summer collection. American Eagle designers created a series of concert vignettes in its fashion show, using colors derived from neon gaffers tape. Coachella patrons are used to seeing miles of […]
Gaffers tape, gaff tape, gaffa tape, dutchman tape, 100 mile an hour tape…. The names go on and on, but they all mean the same thing. Gaffers tape is a woven cotton cloth tape that uses a synthetic adhesive that is designed to be removed without leaving residue. The name for this tape, prized by […]
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The recent, and difficult to explain recent surge in oil prices will probably impact the cost of many tape products in the coming year. After trending down since the last round of tape price increases in the early summer, the cost of oil, a primary component in synthetic adhesives has spiked in the last 30 […]
Most tape manufacturers can provide a MSDS (material safety data sheet) that provides users valuable information regarding the safe handling of their products. This is particularly important when considering the adhesive used on the tape. Persons with a latex allergy can be alerted to the existence of latex in the natural rubber adhesives used on […]