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I have a slate blue Eddie Bauer WeatherEdge jacket (terrific jacket!) that experienced a small but unsightly tear near the lower right pocket. The tear went slightly across one of the seams. I first tried some clear McNett Tenacious Tape, purchased at a local store. While the tape seemed to hold very well, I still found the repair unsightly, the tape too shiny, and it did not flex well with the nylon material of the jacket. How depressing for a practically-new jacket!

So I decided to give the repair a second shot with Kenyon Ripstop, and I'm glad I did. The Kenyon tape is thinner than the McNett and made of nylon itself, and while not a perfect color match the navy I purchased blends well-enough with the jacket color. It flexes and lays well across the seam where the rip occurs. I'm just so much happier with the way this looks. I suspect that it will weather well, too, though time will tell (and I will be back to comment if it doesn't get through the coming Winter). For small rips on jackets and other nylon that must 'flex', go with Kenyon.

UPDATE 2011-07-15 The adhesive on this tape did not hold out too well, in my situation; the little patch started to loose around the edges here and there. However, I used a bit of nylon-appropriate cement to stick it back down and it seems to do well enough. If I were starting over, I would think about supplementing with extra adhesive, but you'd have to look at the individual application.

I purchased this tape to repair some black capes at a hair salon. The stylists had accidentally cut the cape with her scissors. I looked everywhere to find a suitable item to repair the three torn capes. I actually tried an iron on patch material on one cape, and shortly had to throw out the cape, as the iron on made it worse. But this stuff is GREAT! The capes have been through numerous washings, and the repair tape is still holding strong. Highly recommend.

I used this to repair a tear in the rear pocket of my 5.11 Tactical Pro ripstop pants. I applied as directed using adequate overlap/coverage of the tear and rounded the corners of the tape. I used 2 pieces of tape, one on the inside of the pants and one on the outside.

The inside piece is still applied. The outside piece (the one that mattered, to prevent further catching and ripping) came off after 2 wash/dry cycles. Before the first wash/dry the outside piece was peeling, shifting and lifting during normal wear.

The tape did not stick as well as I expected. I'm pretty sure duct tape would have worked better, but I'll sew the tear shortly. I couldn't recommend this for clothing repair, at least not 5.11 Tactical Pro pants (polyester/poly cotton blend).

I used this product to repair a small tear and several small holes in a perma-loft jacket. The tape was easy to use and adheared very well. It did not create any "hard" spots and for the most part are not perceivable to the touch. The color, of course wasn't a match, but I knew that before I purchased this product, my jacket is used for hiking and camping and thus this was of little concern to me.

Kenyon makes great products, this is no exception.

I got black one to fix 4 small tears in a nylon down vest. It's very easy to use, applies nicely, smooth, lightweight, matched vest perfectly. I wanted to give it 5 stars until now. I just noticed that the tape is coming off around the edges and on some corners from the center to end (I did round them up and left enough space between the tear and tape edges). The vest was hanging in the closet all the time since repair, I did not wash it, and weather conditions were great, it doesn't rain very often in our closet... The tape doesn't hold to the surface very well. It sticks great and beautifully at first, but it looks like you will have to check and re-stick it constantly.

Based on the description I was hopeful this was waterproof, but it isn't. No problem because I just coated the whole patch job with a permanent waterproofing agent. Other than that it works great. I used this to make a permanent patch by sewing it on and then sealing the seams, works perfectly for that.

The gorgeous Florida sun has unfortunately had a negative impact on our 2003 Honda S2000's top. When we noticed several small slice-like tears in the canvas (at stress points) we sought an alternative to replacing the entire roof.

Ripstop repair tape did the trick; easily applied and so far the fix appears perfect.

Need I say "cost effective"?

When you have annoying boyfriends that leave glass jars of peanuts in your tent and a pack of wild, aggressive black squirrels eat holes in the tent to get to cette jar, you need to do something to repair the holes. I own a Eureka Sunrise 11 and when I called the Binghamton, NY, company to ask what to do, they immediately suggested this Kenyon tape. Central NY doesn't sell it (that I know of), so I bought it online. Ya, shipping stinks, but I cut rounded patches out like the directions suggested, and carefully placed it over the hole. I did the same to the back, then used seam sealer to seal the edges. Went camping in rainstormy weather, and was dry as could be. Awesome stuff, would buy again, and I love the fact that it adheres to the tent.

**Side note: if you don't carefully place the patch onto whatever hole you're trying to close up, little puckers in the side of the tape appear and I would assume rain would definitely seep in there. This happened twice, so what I did was cut out another little piece of tape and put it on the end of the pucker, then seam sealed it. No leaks so far. You can't put down the tape more than once because of the adhesive, so how do you get it right the first time? I dunno.

Repair did not stay on for even 1 day. The gorilla duct tape I replaced this repair with is still intact!