Silkewerk - A brode lace with a crose and a olyet

A brode lace with a crose and a olyet

Take twelve loops in two colors, and place on the following fingers for You and Your Fellow:
Inner hands: A B C (color 1)
Outer hands: B C D (color 1)
Seat Your Fellow on Your right side.

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

Reverse upward on your outer hands.

D outer takes the overside of C inner reversed. [*]
(Maintaining the same twist direction as the previous loops.)

Reverse downward on inner hands.

Work with the inner hand:

A takes through B C inner, and D C B outer the overside of A outer reversed. [*]
(Undoing the twist from the first step.)

Exchange loops on your inner hands:

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.

Repeat 9 times. (Or the third time that each hand has three matching loops.)

Repeat, working with the outer hand as follows:

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

Reverse upward on your inner hands.

D inner takes the overside of C outer reversed. [*]
(Maintaining the same twist direction as the previous loops.)

Reverse downward on outer hands.

Work with the outer hand:

A takes through B C outer, and D C B inner the overside of A inner reversed. [*]
(Undoing the twist from the first step.)

Exchange loops on your inner hands:

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.

Repeat 9 times. (Or the third time that each hand has three matching loops.)

Repeat from the beginning.

[*] Overside of X reversed - Usually taking the overside (or top side) of a loop means it remains unreversed. The taking finger enters the loop and hooks the top side from within. The loop transfers fingers with no twist. Taking the top side reversed means the taking finger does NOT enter the loop, but hooks the top side from the outside, causing it to twist as it transfers. The difference between this type of reversed and the usual type is the direction that the loop twists. This is important for some braids.

Source: Tollemache 36

A brode lace with a crose and a olyet.
Take 12 bows and set them on thy hands as in the lace cheueron [T29] and work both as in the same lace until the 3 time that thou seeist that all thy bows be of one color and then work both with your next hands as ye did with your further hands until ye see the color be changed 3 then shall ye both work again with your further hands as ye did at the beginning and look that your next hands accord in color and work and your further hands also and when thou hast changed 3 with thy fellow all the bows of thy hand shall be of one color also when thou and thy fellow have changed 14 [9?] times the color of thy hand shall be changed 3 and then shall ye change the working of your hands as it is written before.

Source: Harleian 35

A brode lace with cros and olyet.
Take 12 bows and set on thy hands and on thy fellows hands as in the lace cheueron of 12 bows [H29], and work both as in the self lace, until the 3 time that thou see all the bows be of one color; and then work both with your next hands as ye did with your further hands, until ye see that the color be changed thrice. Then shall ye both work again with your further hands as ye did at the beginning; and look that your next hands accord in color and in work, and your further hands also. And when thou has changed 3 with thy fellow all thy bows of thine hand should be of one color; also when thou and thy fellow have changed 9 times the color of thine one hand shall be changed 3, and then shall ye change the working of your hand as it is written before.