Silkewerk - A broad lace parti

A broad lace parti

This braid is An open lace [21] with the addition of an extra twist along one side, which allows the braid to be opened like a book. The effect is a striped braid, with one color on the left and the other color on the right. Twisting both sides produces A round lace parti [22].

This braid is one of my favorites, and behaves best if gently pressed open with an iron.

Take seven departed loops, and place them on the following fingers:
Right hand: B C
Left hand: Two on A, two on B, one on C
Arrange the same color up on both hands.

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.
Give the loop on A left a full 360° turn.
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.
(Do NOT turn the loop on A right.)
Lower the right loops.

Repeat from the beginning.

Source: Tollemache 23

A brod lace party.
Do in the same manner as thou didst in the round lace party [T22] save there thou turnst in the round lace the over bow of both thy hands thou shalt turn but the over bow of thy one hand.

Source: Harleian 24

To make a brode lace party.
Do as in the round lace party [H23]; save there thou turnist in he round lace the over bow of bow thyn hand, in this lace thou shalt turn but the over bow of thine one hand.

Source: Serene 29

A lace partie broad.
Do in the said manner as in the round lace party [S27], save that in the round lace party, thou turnest the over bows of both thy hands, and in thy neither not but the overbow of that one hand.