With a corrugated box, use a wider and stronger closure tape, 3 inch or 72 mm, reinforced gummed tape or pressure sensitive tape.
The paper edges were fixed with gummed tape, starch glue or tacks, and the paper was left to dry.
The edges were secured using a gummed tape that left a white margin of bare paper at the edge when it was removed.
He used gummed tape, masking tape, glue and string to keep the wrapping intact.
As a paper conservator, I cannot unreservedly recommend all of the products in this range but the gummed tapes are very useful.
Take an imperial sheet of cartridge paper and a small roll of gummed tape.
Damp and stretch out your backing paper onto a drawing board, tape it round the edges with gummed tape and let it dry.
A specific type of gummed tape is called reinforced gummed tape (RGT).
Its products consisted of writing, printing and typing papers, corrugated boards, wax-coated papers, paper cones, gummed tapes, and bitumin paper.
Moreover, waxy maize starches are commonly used in the USA for the manufacture of gummed tapes and envelope adhesives.
