What is washi tape?
Washi tape is a form of decorative tape that originally comes from Japan and is made of paper. Washi is a Japanese word for a traditional thin paper where wa means Japanese and shi means paper. They have a long long tradition of making paper, many hundreds of years before it even appeared in Europe.
But the washi tape itself has its history from Kamoi Kakoshi, which is a Japanese company that was founded as early as 1923. They produced fly paper, with which you catch flies. Over the years, they developed their range. In 1981 they created the Washi adhesive tape "No.3303". A tape that snared had a function of being a tape. In 2008, they launched the brand mt, masking tape which was more focused on stationery and for this they received the Good Design Award. In other words, Mt, masking tape is the original for that form of tape.
There are a variety of different materials on decorative tape where washi tape has become a kind of umbrella term for decorative tape. But washi tape is made of thin Japanese rice paper and usually has an adhesive that makes it removable. But the word washi tape has simply become synonymous with all fancy decorative tapes. Decorative tapes can be made of other paper, plastic and the glue can be removable or permanent adhesion.
However, the fact that it is removable also depends on both the substrate and the tape. If the substrate is porous, the tape can tear off the substrate, regardless of how good the tape's quality is.
What is decorative tape used for?
Throughout the ages, it has been jokingly noted that silver tape is a must in every man's home, to fix things. The decorative tape has evolved into a modern counterpart. The big question is what can't you use a roll for? Once you have started using it, it becomes a must almost constantly.
- The decoration function - it really is the icing on the cake when it comes to decorating anything imaginable. If you use a calendar, the calendar becomes so much more fun with a little bit of decoration here and there. We became aware of these when we started with Bullet Journaling. I don't think we've had a single spread over the years that hasn't received a piece of washi tape to liven up boring lists.
- All creativity with greeting cards, invitation cards, scrapooking, letter writing, diaries, everything like that gets a little boost with a little decorating with decorative tape. A greeting card often has a crazy boring white inside and most people have a hard time getting it to go up a notch. One strip on and voila, it has been given a lift.
- In the home - to decorate or hide blemishes. A strip on a shelf can give a crazy good lift. But even camouflaging veneers have started to come off. Easy to change according to taste. Decorate photo frames. Mark jars in the kitchen or boxes in the cupboards. You simply write on the washi tape (a marker is often required, so write on tape first and then place).
- Mark mugs and glasses at parties, Mark which cord belongs to whom or what, Wrap cords together, mark keys, decorate the mobile phone, decorate the computer.
- Use as index tabs in books, decorate books, tape on a piece of cardboard and voila you have a nice bookmark for a book.
- Post a temporary note on the door at home or at work? Well, great for that. Children want to start sticking pictures and paper on wardrobe doors, equip them with washi tape.
As you can see, the only limits are literally the imagination. But consider the decorative tape as the savior in times of need, both with decoration and blemishes - and suddenly there are application after application. It's the savior in a pinch when you want to get a twist!
A little advice on the road about our range:
In our assortment there are quantities such as pieces. There you can put together your own small candy bag based on models, colors, patterns and widths of tape. Mainly we have well-known brands of good quality from Japan. Mt dominates there, masking tape. They were the ones who invented this model of decorative tape in 2006. However, German Alexandra Renke has done an extremely good job of producing beautiful washi tape, of which we also have a wide range. These brands mainly have washi tape as pieces.
Don't you want to put together your own candy bag? Then there are also packages where someone has already done the work of fiddling around matching. This seems mainly the Americans to be fins on with brands like Simple Stories, 49 and Market and American Crafts. Companies that have a ton of stuff that's popular in the scrapbooking world
