At 04:39 AM 2/20/06 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can someone in America tell me what "Tiger Tape" is, please.
>
> I found a web page showing how to use it to hold gathered fabric/lace in
> place while sewing it to straight fabric or entredeux for heirloom sewing.
> It
> must peel off again without leaving any sticky residue behind.
Tiger tape is a striped tape intended to help a hand-stitcher make uniform
stitches. I've never bought any because it's rather expensive (or was the last
time I paid any attention), you need a separate roll of tape for every length
of stitch, and it isn't likely that one of the standard stripe-widths will be
right for the stitch that I happen to have in mind.
I definitely wouldn't recommend Tiger Tape for a beginner, because it would
distract attention from the cues he should be learning to use. I can see it
for certain forms of embroidery. I imagine quilters buy most of the Tiger Tape
that is sold.
Your description suggests that removable correction tape would do the job fine.
Post It is the most common brand here.
One-line tape would be closest to Tiger Tape, but I nearly always use two-line
tape, which is one-third inch (.85 cm) wide, to keep my stitching straight.
Post It also comes in six-line (1", 2.54 cm).
You should be able to find re-positionable correction tape at any real
stationer's and many "office supply" big-box stores -- nowadays typists print a
fresh copy instead of correcting the old one, but removable tape still has its
uses for, for example, censoring a photocopy without being obvious about it or
damaging the original. I used Post It tape to clean up the line art for the
advertisements in the club newsletter I used to edit.
-- digression
copy-shop clerk: It looks as though someone folded your original.
me: You wouldn't *believe* my original.
copy-shop clerk: Oh, yes, I would!
both:
-- /digression
Correction tape is splendid for making temporary labels on bobbins and the
like. (Sewing-machine bobbins, that is -- I gather that kloepplers sometimes
mark bobbins, but correction tape would be likely to peel off a curved surface,
and I don't imagine that the ability to *write* on the tape would be much use.)
When cycling, I sometimes mark stops on my map by cutting points on slips of
removable correction tape and writing the name of the store or whatever on the
tape. It's easier to see than a pencil mark, more precise than writing
directly on the map, and if tape obscures useful information, I can move it.
Not to mention that I can peel all the marks off and use the map again for a
different trip. (There are ready-made arrows for such purposes, but it's
easier to make two snips on a bit of tape -- and, come to think of it, simply
cutting tape off the roll at an angle would do fine -- than to keep track of
one more container of stuff.)
I use removable address labels to make a spacing guide for hand-sewn hook eyes.
I draw the spacing on the label, then sew through it and tear it off around
the finished row of eyes. The inch-wide labels on hand are too wide, so I draw
two sets of eyes on a label and draw a cutting line down the middle. (This is
easier than drawing two sets separately, since one set of cross-lines does for
all. I usually mark a whole sheet of six labels, and put the spares away for
later use.)
--
Joy Beeson
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