Karla Torres, a finalist for the “Duck Tape” prom dress scholarship competition, spent more than 100 hours making the dress inspired by art she saw at the Getty Museum.

Berry Plastics alone sells roughly 35 different types of duct tape under the Nashua and Polyken names—so after our research, we asked the major brands (Intertape, Duck, Scotch, Nashua, and ...

In case you’ve lived in a cave most of your life, here’s the kind of tape we are talking about. (“ Duck Tape ” by Evan-Amos.) Duck tape didn’t get really famous, though, until World War II.

A California high school senior is in the running to win $10,000 for a white floral prom dress she made entirely out of Duck Tape. Anne Pacheco Timmerman of San Carlos, Calif., created the bright ...

The tape was originally called duck tape because of its water-resistant qualities. It repelled water like a duck's back, and it used to be made out of a cotton duck fabric without any adhesive layers.

Actually, the original duck tape wasn’t adhesive at all. It was simply strips of cotton duck used for several purposes, including making shoes and wrapping steel cables like the ones placed in ...