Silver lavender double-laced

Color and pattern male

Head: lavender.

Neck and saddle: hackles lavender with silver glow, each feather has a broad lavender middle-stripe with a silver-white center, formed by a narrow silver-white stripe on either side of the silver-white shaft, outer-lace silver-white, in the lower part of the hackle with a lavender lacing, which widens downwards into a lavender feather-end; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back: silver-white, each feather with a broad lavender lacing.

Shoulders and wing-bows: similar to the neck-hackle, lavender lacing is wider and more lacing allowed.

Wings: front lavender; wing-bar lavender, silver-white lacing allowed.

Primary-flights: black, with a narrow silver-white lace on the outer-web.

Secondary-flights: inner-web lavender, outer-web silver-white preferably with a narrow lavender lace, forming a silver-white wing-bay with a narrow lavender lace when the wing is closed.

Tail: main-feathers, sickles and coverts lavender, at the base of the lesser-sickles some silver-white lacing allowed provided it is not visible from outside the cage.

Breast: lavender, some narrow silver-white lacing allowed.

Flanks, thighs and fluff: lavender.

Down: dark-grey.

Serious faults

Too much white in hackles. Red or deep yellow tint on hackles, back, shoulders, wing-bows or wing-flights. Too dark or too light lavender. Absence of white pattern in wing-flights. Much white on the breast. White in main-feathers and sickles. Insufficient feather-structure in tail.

Faults

Slightly yellow on back, shoulders and wing-bows. Slightly uneven lavender. Slightly white in flanks, thighs and belly. Slightly grey in the wing-flights. Little pattern in the hackles, back, shoulders and wing-bows. Little lacing in the wing-flights.

Color and pattern male

Head: lavender.

Neck: each hackle-feather with lavender lacing, wide enough to make the hackle lavender and a dark silver-grey center with a wide middle-stripe, some silver-grey in the upper part of the hackle allowed, silver-grey shaft; front of the neck similar to the breast.

Back, shoulders, wing-coverts, saddle, breast, flanks, thighs and belly: each feather dark silver-grey sharpley lavender double-laced, parallel to each other and the outline, the outer-lace is broader then the inner-lace; the larger feathers of the saddle and the lower breast also have a lavender stripe along the shaft, which is lavender at that location.

Primary-flights: inner-weblavender, outer-web dark silver-grey.

Secondary-flights: inner-web lavender, outer-web dark silver-grey preferably with a narrow lavender lace, some coarse black marking in the dark silver-grey allowed.

Tail: main- feathers lavender except for the upper ones on both sides, which are irregularly dark silver-grey patterned; coverts double-laced with a lavender stripe along the shaft, which is lavender at that location.

Fluff: lavender.

Down: greyish.

Note

The presence of a complete multiple lace is not considered a fault in older females.

Serious faults

Too rusty or too grey-brown ground-color. Too dark or too light lavender. Too heavy, irregular or a incomplete outer-lace. Absence of inner-lace. Strong peppering in the ground-color.