Silkewerk - Lace cowe de race

Lace cowe de race

This braid is unlike any of the other braids, but all three manuscripts contain it. Like the lace broad party [T62] I've included it with the other seven loop braids only because of the number of loops.

Take seven departed loops, and place on the following fingers:
Left hand: A B C D
Right hands: B C D
Place all one color up - the bottom color will form the main color of the braid.
Tie the end to a swivel. The braid needs to rotate while it is being worked.

Work with the right hand:

With A, enter B right from within outward,
and under all the loops of both hands,
take the over side of A left reversed.

High the left loops.

D left takes D right unreversed.

Low the right loops.

Repeat.

[This braid looks like a series of vertical threads "stitched down" by a spiral of threads in a second color. Consistent, gentle tightening is the key to keeping the spiral evenly spaced.]

Source: Tollemache 16

Lace cowe de race.
Depart 7 bows of 2 colors and set bows on A B C D left and 3 bows on B C D right and then shall A right enter into B of the same hand from within outward and under all the bows of both hands take the over side of A left reversed and then shall thou high thy left bows and D left shall take the bow of D right unreversed then low thy right bows and begin again and when thou shalt make this lace knit [knot] the end of the lace to a torett that it may turn about.

Source: Harleian 11

Lace condrak departed.
Take 7 bows of 2 colors, and do 4 on A B C D right [ ... ] And then shall A right enter into B of the self hand from within outward, and under all the bows of both hand take the over side of A left reversed. And then thou shalt high thy left bows, and D left shall take the bow [...] thy right bows, and begin again. And when thou shalt make they lace look thou knit [knot] the end of the lace to a turn that it may turn about.

Source: Serene 37

A lace called Cow-de-rate.
Take 7 bows of Duve color, and be four bows upon A B C D left and three bows upon B C D right, and then shall A right take to reverse through the bow B, of the self hand, and under all the other bow the bows A reversed of the left hand, and then high the left bows, and then shall D, of the left hand take the bow of the right hand not reversed, and then low the bows of the right hand and begin again as before, and this same lace may be made of six bows, but then shall no bow be upon D left.