Linear cut sewing tape

A sewing tape comprising an elongated strip of flexible material having an upper face and a lower face, a pressure sensitive adhesive coating on said lower face, and fully cut through cuts in said strip extending longitudinally the length of said strip completely dividing said strip into ribbons of predetermined width, said strip having a plurality of imperforate depressions in the lower face and projecting upwardly of said upper face causing some of said pressure sensitive adhesive coating to extend across said cuts holding said ribbons together, a plurality of longitudinally extending lines on said upper face closely coinciding with at least some of said cuts, said lines extending parallel to each other, indicia on said upper face indicating the distance each of said lines is from an edge of said strip, a plurality of transverse lines on said tape extending normally to said strip and marking at least some of said ribbons into sections of predetermined length, some of said transverse lines extending from one edge of said strip to one of said cuts, and others of said transverse lines extending from another edge of said strip to another of said cuts.