Silkewerk - Cheueron rounde

Cheueron rounde

Like most of the braids based on chevrons, this one comes in four versions:

Single flat	Cheueron brod [T30]
Single round	A cheueron rounde [T31][T63][T64]
Double flat	Lace ounde brode [T33]
Double round	Lace ounde rounde [T34]

The direction that the loops are given the half-twist matters, and determines which side of the braid faces upward during the braiding. This is especially relevant when it comes to forming the round versions. The manuscripts are vague on this point, but it's clear that the twist was intentionally controlled.

For the sake of consistency, all my directions will form a braid with the more attractive side facing down, allowing for the A loops to be exchanged above the braid.

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 D C B left, the loop of A left unreversed.
High the left loops.
Move the loop taken from A left onto D left.

[The top (A) loop is pulled down though the other loops to ultimately end on D.]

Work with the left hand (in mirror image):
A takes through D C B right, the loop of A right unreversed.
High the right loops.
Move the loop taken from A right onto D right.

Exchange D loops:
Put the loop from D right over and around D left, taking back the loop from D left reversed.

Exchange A loops:
Put the loop from A right over and around A left, taking back the loop from A left reversed.

Twist all your loops, giving a 180° turn to each loop:
Twist the bottom of each loop upward (Counter-clockwise on left, clockwise on right.)

Repeat from the beginning.

Source: Tollemache 31

A Cheueron rounde of 8.
Set 8 bows of 2 colors as above [T30] and work in the same manner save when thou hast changed D right with D left then shall A right change with A left and reverse as above.

Source: Tollemache 63

A cheueron round of 8 bows not according to the cheveron round aforesaid.
Set 8 bows as it is aforesaid in the cheveron broad [T30] that is to know of 2 colors and work in the same manner save when thou change D right with D left thou shalt take D left through D right unreversed and in like wise A left through A right unreversed and begin again.

Source: Tollemache 64

Also for to make another cheveron round.
Thou shalt do as above [T63] save when thou change D left through D right thou shalt reverse D left and in like wise when thou change A left through A right and begin again.

[Note:
The first instance of this braid in Tollemache doesn't specify whether you should take the D and A left loops reversed or unreversed. (Neither does Harleian or Serene.) Tollemache then provides two additional entries for this same braid, with [T63] adding that the loops should be taken unreversed, and [T64] instructing to take them reversed. Three sets of instructions for something that doesn't make any significant difference! I've chosen to take these loops reversed, but clearly unreversed works as well.]

Source: Harlein 31

A round cheueron of 8 bows.
(Omnia sicut prius [All as before]) [H30] save when thou hast changed D right with D left thou shalt change A right with A left, and reversing also.

Source: Serene 48

A lace cheveron round.
Take eight bows, and do in the self manner, as before in the broad of eight bows [S47] but when D right hath changed with D left, then shall A right change with A left, and that under all the other bows and begin again.