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  2. Drafting tape - Wikipedia

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    Drafting tape should have a neutral pH. [5] Drafting tape is slightly more water-resistant to help with masking for paint. While the obvious use of drafting tape is for drawing, drafting tape, like masking tape, can also be used for labeling and hanging posters. Its white or cream coloring goes well with many other colors, and it can be written ...

  3. Scotch tape - Wikipedia

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    A Scotch brand box sealing tape Modern Scotch brand acetate [clarification needed] tape packaging showing the distinctive tartan design. Although Scotch is a trademark and a brand name, Scotch tape is sometimes used as a generic term, [6] [7] in a similar manner to Sellotape in several other countries. The Scotch brand includes many different ...

  4. Masking tape - Wikipedia

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    Masking tape Painter's tape, a type of masking tape typically used to ensure clean edges on wall painting. A low tack masking tape. Masking tape used on a helicopter. Masking tape, also known as painter's tape, is a type of pressure-sensitive tape made of a thin and easy-to-tear paper, and an easily released pressure-sensitive adhesive.

  5. Richard Gurley Drew - Wikipedia

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    In its first trial run, it fell off the car and the frustrated auto painter growled at Drew, "take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!" [3] (By "Scotch", he meant "cheap".) The nickname stuck, both to Drew's improved masking tape, and to his 1930 invention, Scotch Brand cellulose tape.

  6. Tape dispenser - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the development of the tape dispenser, 3M's standard clear scotch tape was sold as a roll, and had to be carefully peeled from the end and cut with scissors. To make the product more useful, the scotch tape sales manager at 3M, John Borden, designed the first tape dispenser in 1932, which had a built-in cutting mechanism and would hold the cut end of the tape until its next use.

  7. Tape - Wikipedia

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    Masking tape, also known as painter's tape or sticky tape, a type of pressure-sensitive tape made of a thin and easy-to-tear paper, and an easily released pressure-sensitive adhesive Pressure-sensitive tape , adhesive tape that will stick with application pressure, without the need for solvent, heat, or water

  8. List of adhesive tapes - Wikipedia

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    This tape has adhesive on both sides, and is used to stick two surfaces together. Duct tape Usually gray in color, this tape is backed with scrim, often coated with rubber or plastic. [1] Elastic therapeutic tape Also known as "K tape" and "kinesiology tape", it is an elastic-cotton strip backed with acrylic adhesive.

  9. Palette (painting) - Wikipedia

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    An artist's palette. A palette (/ ˈ p æ l ɪ t /) is a surface on which a painter arranges and mixes paints. [1] [2] A palette is made of materials such as wood, paper, glass, ceramic or plastic, and can vary greatly in size and shape.