Silkewerk - Lace daunce

Lace daunce

A lace daunce [T12] and A lace piole [T11] are color variations of the same structure.

Daunce is a heraldic term describing the zig-zag pattern produced by the two colors.

Take eight loops in two colors, and place them on the following fingers:
Color 1: A B of both hands
Color 2: C D of both hands

Work with the right hand:
A takes through B C D right, the loop of D left unreversed. (You'll have two loops on A.)
Lower the left loops.

Work with the left hand:
A takes through B C D left, the loop of D right reversed.
Lower the right loops.

To lower the right loops:
C loop moves down onto D.
B loop moves down onto C.
Use your middle (B) finger to hook the original (inner) A loop, pulling it over and around the new (outer) loop and down onto B.

Repeat.

Source: Tollemache 12

Lace daunce.
Take 4 bows one color and set them on A and B right and on A and B left and 4 bows of another color and let them on C D right and on C D left and work as in the lace piole [T11].

Source: Harleian 14

For to make a lace dawns.
Take 4 bows of one color, and set on A B right and on A B left; and 4 bows of another color take and set on C D left and C D right. Then shall A of the right hand go throughout B C D of the same hand and take the bow D of the left hand unreversed. Then low thy left bows, and A left shall go through B C D of the same hand and take the bow D of the right hand reversed downward. Then low the bow of C onto D right, and then low B to C, and the bow that is within on A shall go over the former bow onto B with help of the other hand. And the bow that stood without on A shall stand still on A. And begin again.

Source: Serene [*]

[* Although Serene refers to a "daunce of eight bows" in the instructions for A lace piole [S15], there isn't one in the ms. It is likely that it was accidently left out, because the preceding braid, "The same round" [S14] produces the round version of the missing lace daunce rather than a round version of the braid that is actually before it ("A Launce daunce broad of twelve bows" [S13]). Inserting a missing dawns braid between S13 and S14 clarifies everything.]