Silkewerk - A lace compound coverte

A lace compound couerte

Worked alone, this is A Open Lace [4]. Don't twist the loops and you'll have A lace couerte [13].

The preceeding two braids (A lace couerte [13] and A lace doble couerte [14]) kept the center layer completely hidden. In this "compound" version, the option of bringing concealed colors or patterns to the outside of the braid is briefly explored. The Serene ms has a wider variety of this type of braid, using 12 loops and in many different color patterns.

"Compony" or "Compone" is a heraldic term describing a single row of squares in alternating colors - an apt description for this braid. (See: Compon [H18 - below], Compound [T15 - below], Compouner and Componer [T60].)

Take ten departed loops, and place on the following fingers for You and Your Fellow:
Outer hands: A B C
Inner hands: B C
Arrange the same color up on all hands. (The color on the bottom will form the outside of the braid.)

Work your own braids:

Inner hands:
A takes through B C inner, the loop of C outer unreversed.
Lower the inner loops.

Outer hands:
A takes through B C outer, the loop of C inner unreversed.
Lower the outer loops.

Exchange loops on your inner hands:

You:
With A, enter B of the same hand from within outward and take Your Fellow's B unreversed.

Your Fellow:
Takes with his A, Your loop B unreversed.

Both:
Lower A to B.

Exchange loops on your outer hands:

Both:
Reverse the A loop "downward".

You:
Put your A loop over and around Your Fellow's A, taking his A back in exchange unreversed.

Both:
Reverse the A loop "upward" (undoing the twist from the previous step).

Repeat from the beginning.

As Desired:
Bring the inner color to the surface of the braid by twisting every loop so the color on the bottom is now on the top, and continue working as before.

Source: Tollemache 15

Lace compound couerte.
Take 10 bows and set them in your hands & work in the same manner as you did in the lace couerte [T13] and when you have wrought so much as you will then turn all your bows and work so much further forth as you did before.

Source: Harleian 18

For to make a lace compon couerte.
Take a fellow, and work as you did in the lace couerte [H16]; and when you have wrought as much as you will, turn all your bows, and work as much as you did beforehand.