Designing: Lace

Created: 6 March 2021, 11:49:00 UTC

Last updated: 8 January 2025, 03:59:52 UTC

Lace

Examples

Basics

Lace creates a stripey patterning on the ketucari's coat similar to the patterning found on the bumblebee, pinstripe,

spider, and super blast ball pythons pictured HERE (use CTRL+F to find them). You can Google these
morphs to find more examples.
Bullet; White

In your ketucari's genotype, lace is denoted by the letters "nLc" (heterozygous). The homozygous (LcLc) version
of lace is called acid.
Bullet; White

In its heterozygous form, lace has a pass rate of 50%. Acid has a pass rate of 75%.

Color

Lace must be a darker color of your chosen base, with a minor deviation in hue. It can also be a fully desaturated color of the base, as long as it is darker. Lace may be pure black.

These colors would be acceptable for this base color. They are either a darker version of the base, or a darker and desaturated version of the base. The last color on the right shows a minor deviation in hue, and is slightly more yellow than the base itself. Notice that this small change is not overbearing.

These colors would be unacceptable for lace. They are either lighter than the base coat or have too drastic a hue shift.

Range

Since lace can appear anywhere on the body, there is no minimum range diagram for it. It must cover enough of the body that it is immediately recognizable.

Lace vs. Similar Markings

Acid vs. Lace

The image below shows the difference in width between acid and lacing patterning. The lacing stripes below are the maximum width for lacing.

Lace vs. Striping vs.. Marble

Be careful that lacing doesn't too closely resemble striping or marbling.

Interaction with Other Markings

All markings can be layered under or over lace.
Bullet; White

Lace can be influenced by Inferno, Vapor, Segment, And Pale
Bullet; White

When paired with webbing, you may layer the markings on top of eachother as normal, OR choose one of the options below:

ONE
Airbrush a darker shade of the base along the topline (similar to sable), then erase away the irregular "ripple" lines for your webbing. Then erase away larger, bolder lines the create a "cut-away" version of lace on top of the webbing.

TWO
Airbrush a darker shade of the base along the topline (similar to sable), but forego the ripple lines of webbing. Erase away only the lace lines to create the cut-away lace.

THREE
Lastly, a webbing + lace combination may simply turn the lace into a lighter shade of the base coat, with no actual webbing visible. If using this option, the lacing may not be white.

Accents

Here are some small accents you can add to your designs to make them more unique!

Bullet; White

Lace may have a subtle, light halo around the stripes:

Lace may have a subtle gradient that fades into the base coat, like below.