Silkewerk - Lace ounde brode

Lace ounde brode

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

Single flat	Cheueron brode [T30]
Single round	Cheueron rounde [T31]
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.

Seat Your Fellow on Your right side.

Take sixteen loops in two colors, and place them onthe following fingers:
Color 1: A B of all hands.
Color 2: C D of all hands.

Work your own chevron braids:

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.

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.)

Connect Your braid with Your Fellow's:

Exchange A loops on your inner hands:
Your Fellow's A loop passes through Your A loop unreversed.

[Use your other hand to make this work.]

Repeat from the beginning.

Source: Tollemache 33

Lace ounde rounde of 16.
Set 8 bows of one color upon A B in thy fellows hands and thine and 8 bows of another color on C D and work both as ye did in the broad chevron of 8 [T30] and then shall ye change the over bows of your next hands and so begin again.

Source: Harleian 37

A lace ounde brode of 16 bowes.
Set 8 bows of one color on A B on yur hands, and 8 bws of another color on C D on your hands, and work as in the chevron of 8 bows [H30]; and then shall ye change the over bows of your next hands.

Source: Serene 49

A lace ownd of sixteen bowes.
Take sixteen bows of which eight be of one color, and eight of anothera ,nd be all that one color upon A B of both thy hands, and on both the hands of thy fellows, and thatother color upon C D of both your hands, and then shall you change your over bowes of your hinder hands, and then work in the self manner, as in the Cheveron broad of eight bowes [S47] and begin again.