It has a strong adhesive.The standard duct tape is usually grey or black in colour but these come in variety of designs and patterns. It is actually a heavy duty tape used for sealing ducts but nowadays they are used for variety of crafts.It is a plastic coated tape with fabric backing. This is also a temporary tape.Refer to what package says, sometimes it says ,it is temporary for certain amount of time. It is also less tacky compared to masking tape. Painter's tape is mostly used when painting wall and also while painting other things like tables, chairs, etc. This tape is used mostly by artists when painting.It is less tacky compared to masking tape.It is used for temporary adhesion. Oh ya!!!Really!!See the picture below.Spotted this tape during my home depot visit. It comes in varieties such as masking tape for home & office, for concrete.brick & grout, etc.
It is a paper tape which can be torn easily with our hand.As it is paper tape, you can write on it with pen.When it is stored for longer days ,the paper in the tape starts to wrinkle and makes in unusable. From my experience: I actually made this mistake by using masking tape in foam board and when I tried to remove ,it ruined the surface.So, it is better not to use masking tape as it has strong adhesive compared to artist's tape.Use Artist tape when working with paints in paper. It is not recommended to use when painting in a paper products like foam board, poster board, etc. It is generally used when painting a object and protecting the area where it should not be painted. It is used in the projects where you want to add embellishments to the main project.Such as attaching a photo to the poster board, adding a trim to the scrapbook pages, etc This is a variety of scotch tape which comes in frosted /matte finish mostly used for gift wrapping.It is almost invisible when used with paper.Īs the name says, it has glue on both the sides. It has variety of uses from gift wrapping to hold lighter objects together like paper to paper.Do you know I used this tape to make a Pendant lamp, click here to see how. It is the most commonly used tape often referred to as Scotch tape.