Silkewerk - An open lace

An open lace

The Tollemach ms comments that if this braid is worked with departed loops (all of the same color up) it will produce one braid in each color. The principle here is the same as in A open lace [4], which also creates two laces at the same time, but uses only 5 loops.

Take seven loops, and place them on the following fingers:
Right hand: B C
Left hand: Two on A, two on B, one on C

Work with the right hand:
A takes through B C right, the front loop of B left unreversed.
B takes the front loop of A left unreversed.
A takes through the front loop of B right, the loop on C left unreversed.
Lower the left loops.

Work with the left hand (in mirror image):
A takes through B C left, the front loop of B right unreversed.
B takes the front loop of A right unreversed.
A takes through the front loop of B left, the loop on C right unreversed.
Lower the right loops.

Repeat from the beginning.

Source: Tollemache 21

An open lace of 7 bows.
Set 7 bows on thy hands in the manner of the hollow lace of 7 bows [T19] amd work in the same manner of the hollow lace [T19] save in this lace thou shalt all thy bows unreversed and thy bows be departed thou shalt have a lace of one color and another of another color.

Source: Harleian 22

To make an open lace of 7 bows.
Set 7 bows on thy finger as in the hollow lace [H13], and work in the same manner as the hollow lace [H13], save in this lace thou shalt have all thy bows unreversed; and if thy bows be departed thou shalt have one lace of one color and that other of another color.

Source: Serene 26

The same lace open.
Do in the same manner as is aforesaid [S25] save that never a bow shall be taken reversed, and if the bows be departed that one shall be of one color and the other of another.