Silkewerk - Penne powne

Penne powne

Take sixteen loops in four colors, and place them as follows:
Color 1 (green): A B of both inner hands.
Color 2 (red): C D of both inner hands.
Color 3 (black): A B of both outer hands.
Color 4 (white/blue): C D of both outer hands.
Seat Your Fellow on Your right side.

Work with the inner hand:

A takes through B C D inner, and D C B outer the loop of A outer unreversed.

High the outer loops.

Move the loop from D inner onto D outer, unreversed.

Low the inner loops.
Hook B in the back A loop and pull it over and around the front A loop and onto B.

Exchange the A loop on your inner hands:

[The usual instructions don't work because you have a loop on A. Have your outer hands help.]

You: With A, enter B of the same hand from within outward and take Your Fellow's B unreversed.

Your Fellow: Takes with his A, Your loop B unreversed.

Both: Lower A to B.

Twist all your loops, giving a 180° turn to each loop:
[You can skip this step if you reversed downward and upward.]
Outer hand - Twist the bottom of each loop upward.
Inner hand - Twist the top of each loop downward.

Repeat until the green loops are on A B of the outer hands. Green never gets to be pulled through all the other loops.

Work with the outer hand (just as you did with the inner):

A takes through B C D outer, and D C B inner the loop of A inner unreversed.

High the inner loops.

Move the loop from D outer onto D inner, unreversed.

Low the outer loops.
Hook B in the back A loop and pull it over and around the front A loop and onto B.

Exchange the A loop on your inner hands:

[The usual instructions don't work because you have a loop on A. Have your outer hands help.]

You: With A, enter B of the same hand from within outward and take Your Fellow's B unreversed.

Your Fellow: Takes with his A, Your loop B unreversed. Both: Lower A to B.

Twist all your loops, giving a 180° turn to each loop: [*]

Inner hand - Twist the bottom of each loop upward.

Outer hand - Twist the top of each loop downward.

Repeat until the green loops are on A B of the inner hands.

Repeat from the beginning.

For once Tollemach and Harliean tack the additional instruction for making a round braid onto the end of the broad version. Serene's round version follows the broad under its own title.

Source: Tollemache 35

Penne powne 16.
Take 4 green bows and set them on A B of your next hands and 4 red bows on C D in the same hands and 4 black bows on A B in your further hands and 4 white or blue on C D in the same hands and work as in the broad chevron of 16 bows [T32] until that the green bows be on A B on your further hands then shall ye work with your further hands as ye did with your next hands until that the green be again on A B on your further [next] hands then ye may begin again and thou wilt make it round do in the same manner as is to fore said and when ye have changed the over bows of your next hands ye shall then change the over bows of your further hands.

Source: Harleian 34

A lace pen power.
Take 4 bows of green and set on A, B on your next hands, and 4 red bows on C, D on your next hands, and 4 black bows on A, B on your further hand, and 4 white other [or] blue on C, D on your further hands. And then work as in the cheveron broad of 16 bows [H32] until the green bows be on A, B on your further hands. Then shall ye work with your further hands as ye did with your next hands until the green bows be again on A, B on your next hands, and then begin again. And if thou would make the lace round do in the manner as aforesaid; and when ye have changed the over bows of your next hands ye shall change the over bows of your further hands, and begin again.

Source: Serene 45

A Lace penne de pound.
Take sixteen bows of the which four be green, four red, four white, and four black, and be the four green upon A B of your next hands and four red upon D C of the left hands and four white upon D C of your further hands, and four black upon A B of the self hands, and then shall you work in the self manner as in the chevron broad [S43] till that the green be upon A B of your further hands, and then work in the self manner with A of the further hands as ye did with A of your next hands and then begin again as before.

Source: Serene 46

A Lace enleved of sixteen bows.
Do in the self manner as in the lace penne de pound [S45], but when ye hand changed your over bows of your next hands ye shall change your over bows of your further hands, and then reverse all thy bows and begin again.