Here's another late night experiment with lacing. My last attempt was WAY too bumpy so I sanded the styrene "eyelets" down to almost nothing (I'd do this before mounting the strips on the fuse) and then used a more scale type thread.

But the photo of the Dove lacing also got me thinking that maybe they "double laced" the zig-zag style to get the external V pattern. Notice the double-lacing on the left of the photo and the single-lacing on the right.