Gaffer tape is a heavy cotton cloth pressure-sensitive tape with strong adhesive and tensile properties. It is widely used in theatre, photography, film, radio and television production, and industrial staging work.
Matte black gaffer tape
Red gaffer tape
Yellow gaffer tape used for marking a camera department remote on a film set
Rolls of gaffer tape in a variety of colors
Pressure-sensitive tape or pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is an adhesive tape that will stick with application of pressure, without the need for a solvent or heat for activation. It is known also in various countries as self-stick tape, sticky tape, or just adhesive tape and tape, as well as genericized trademarks, such as Sellotape, Durex (tape), Scotch tape, etc.
Two rolls of adhesive tape
1945 advertisement for cellulose tape