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 Q. -  When doing a  complicated pattern,  what type of masking tape do you use?
 Hello Chris,
 A. -  The best tape you  can use to create a pattern and/or a border on concrete when concrete  staining, is actually a packaging tape. The kind that is a clearish looking,  with the strings that run through it. You can find the packaging tape that has  the strings running through it (clearish - like a plastic type of tape or a  heavy duty scotch tape sort of tape - just be sure that it is not a paper tape,  and that it does have the strings running through it) at about any packaging  store, ups, fedex, etc.