Double crosset
Like most of the braids based on chevrons, this one comes in four versions:
| Single flat | A lace sauntor brod [T42] |
| Single round | Cross olyet round of 8 bowis [T43] |
| Double flat | Double crosset [T46] |
| Double round | Double loseng [T45] |
The direction that the loops are given the half-twist matters, especially when the braid contains reversals such as this. It also 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 on the following fingers:
Color 1: A B of all hands.
Color 2: C D of all hands.
Make your own "A" shaped chevrons:
Work with the right hands:
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 hands (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 your own 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 these "A" chevron steps a total of four times, then continue as follows:
Make your own "V" shaped chevrons:
Work with the right hands:
A takes through A B C right, the loop of D right unreversed.
Low the right loops.
[Using your other hand, take the bottom (D) loop and push it up through the other loops to end in front of the loop already on A.]
[Hook B in the back A loop and pull it over and around the front A loop and onto B - allowing the loop brought up from D to travel through A as previously instructed. This lowering method is explained in Tollemache's Lace Piole [T11].]
Work with the left hands (in mirror image):
A takes through A B C left, the loop of D left unreversed.
Low the left loops.
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 top of each loop downward (clockwise on left, counter-clockwise on right)
[This is the opposite direction from before.]
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 these steps a total of four times, then repeat from the beginning.
Source: Tollemache 46
Double crosset
Set 16 bows on your hands as in the lace ound [T33] and work as in the double loseng [T45] save that ye shall not change the over bows of your further hands.
Source: Serene 55
A lace double croiste
Take sixteen bows of the which eight be of one color, and eight of another, and be they set upon your hands as in the Lace Ound [S50], and then shall you work as in the double losenge [S54], save that you shall not change the over bows of your further hands.
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