Everyday Uses For VELCRO® Brand Straps And Other Products

VELCRO® Brand was first launched in the late 1950s after Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral wondered why burdock seeds clung to his woollen clothes and his dog. From this, he invented his first touch fastener and patented it in 1950, and by the end of this decade, he had refined the product and released it into the world.

Since then VELCRO® has grown into one of the most recognisable brands, often misused as a genericized trademark for hook-and-loop fasteners. However, there is only one true VELCRO® Brand. It consists of two parts like most hook-and-loop products, a fabric strip with tiny hooks on one side, and another strip with corresponding smaller loops. The connection is strong when attached, but can be easily removed by pulling the two apart.

While originally thought to be used as a fastener for clothing, the VELCRO® Brand has expanded across a wide range of industries and applications – from hospitals and the military to spacecraft and interior design. Here at MPD Hook & Loop, we provide versatile VELCRO® Brand products to our customers, operating as a premium distributor of standard and bespoke solutions.

Read on to discover everyday uses of VELCRO® Brand products, ranging from the obvious to the most unique.

Everyday VELCRO® Brand Uses

Clothes

As mentioned above, VELCRO® Brand Products were originally designed for use in the clothing industry. Before the invention of the VELCRO® Brand, buttons, laces and zippers were most popularly used for clothing. However, each comes with downsides. Buttons can easily come loose and buttonholes can tear, with both rendering the garment useless without repair.

Zippers can easily become stuck and break, while laces can take effort to tie, especially for youngsters and the very old. And it’s not just them, even the most able-bodied can struggle with these fasteners if they’re in a rush!

VELCRO® Brand products are ideal for clothes as they are simple to use, and do not typically degrade over time, meaning you are less likely to need to replace them. VELCRO® Brand actually rose in popularity in the clothing industry due to a very unusual source – NASA.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration started to use VELCRO® Brand products as a perfect fastener for space travel. It could be used to easily strap in and get out of large spacesuits and would hold tight regardless of the lack of gravity. It therefore got a reputation as a futuristic product that everybody soon wanted to adopt.

Shoe manufacturers were one of the first clothing types to realise the value of VELCRO® Brand products, with Puma becoming the first brand to use it in 1988. Since then, the variation in styles of VELCRO® Brand products has made it a staple in design.

It’s seen a big shoot in popularity in recent years as top brands have decided that disability-friendly clothes need to be available for the masses, and VELCRO® Brand is the perfect fastener for these.

Another ingenious use of VELCRO® Brand products is to remove bobbles and pills from clothing. These are those annoying little fabric balls that can appear on clothing after a few washes. While there are special gadgets and tools to remove these, a simple way is just if you have some VELCRO® Brand about. If you run a piece of the hook side over your clothes, the bobbles and pills should come away with ease.

Pallet Banding & Straps For Other Uses

While VELCRO® Pallet Bands and Straps may have more use in commercial settings, there is no reason why they can’t be used in everyday life. We have a great selection of VELCRO® Brand Standard Straps that are perfect for everyday use. You can use them to gather things together for storage or when moving house, or securing loose cables with ease. You could even take them camping and use them to secure tents and sleeping bags for transport.

LogiStraps® Pallet Straps’ primary purpose is to secure goods to pallets, but they can also be used for everyday applications. This could include securing boxes for moving or fastening things to a surface that might slip around.

No More Pins Or Blue Tack With VELCRO® Brand Self-Adhesive Coins

To make a house a home, you need to fill the space with personality. And one of the best ways to do that is to hang pictures or art on your walls. However, some of the more typical methods for hanging things can cause damage to your walls.

This is never good if you’re in a rental property, but it can also damage walls in a property you own. Pins will leave holes in your wall, while Blue Tack can stain or rip off the paintwork. Luckily VELCRO® Brand products can help.

They can be used to easily attach paintings and artwork to your wall. The best part is, as VELCRO® Brand is easy to remove, you can change your artwork whenever you want! VELCRO® Brand Self-Adhesive Coins are a great choice for hanging artwork and paintings without worrying about leaving behind a mark.

Increase Storage Space

You can use VELCRO® Brand products to create additional storage space around your home. You can apply VELCRO® Brand products to the inside of cabinets and drawers, which you can then attach additional storage solutions.

They can be used to maximise the existing space that you have with ease. This could be to hang shelves where you could put food items, or provide space for tools or any other household items that you want to easily grab as soon as you open a cupboard.

Keep Furniture In Place

If you’re a keen interior designer, you know the importance of everything being exactly where you want it. However, your furniture doesn’t always play ball. Furniture on wheels can roll about, light pieces can move with only a small amount of effort and rugs can move out of place very quickly.

VELCRO® Brand products can be used to keep your furniture in place, so you don’t have to worry about stuff moving around and ruining the design flow of your home.

Rugs can be kept in place, and depending on the flooring you might even only need one side of the VELCRO® Brand product. Just the hook side should be able to naturally hook to the fibres of a carpet, but for wooden floors, you will need both sides of the product to make it stick. VELCRO® Brand Self-Adhesive products will be perfect for this application.

The same technique will also work for larger furniture items, attaching them to the walls or other furniture items to keep them secure.

However, another option is to use VELCRO® Brand Cable Ties & Tape, which can easily attach things together. Another great household use for cable ties and tape is to keep all of your pesky wires out of the way. They can attach together a bunch of cables so you’re not faced with a mass of wires that look unsightly and can be confusing.

Keep Things Hidden

While you might think your possessions are safe and sound, you never know when a robbery might occur at your home or place of work. While you may hide your valuables in obvious places, VELCRO® Brand products could be used to hide your valuables in places nobody would think to look.

This could be a hard drive with confidential information strapped to the underside of your desk, or a box with pricey jewellery tucked away in the back of a wardrobe where nobody would think to look.

Get Your VELCRO® Brand Circles & More Today

Now that we’ve explored some of the everyday uses of VELCRO® Brand products, time to shop today with MPD Hook & Loop. Established over 30 years ago, we have grown into the largest stockist of genuine VELCRO® Brand products, with a huge range of options that can be cut to bespoke lengths and shapes.

We also offer next working day delivery if you order by 4 pm, and have a team of experts standing by to give you informative advice from real people. If you’d like to ask any questions about our products or business, feel free to contact us here or call us on 01373 827 111.