Sauntor oliet
Like most of the braids based on chevrons, this one appears to come in four versions, although there are several questionable members of the family:
| Single flat | Cross olyet brod of 8 bowis [T44] |
| Single round | Cros olyet round [T43 - conjecture] |
| Double flat | Sauntor oliet [T47] |
| Double round | Sauntor oliet round [T48] |
These braids are an 8 repeat version of the lace sauntor broad [T42] family.
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 three colors, and place them on the following fingers:
Color 1 (white): A B outer, and C D inner
Color 2 (purple): A B inner
Color 3 (red): C D outer
[Take sixteen loops in two colors, and place them on the following fingers:
Color 1: A B C of all hands
Color 2: 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 eight 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 "V" chevron steps a total of eight times, then repeat from the beginning.
Source: Tollemache 47
Sauntor oliet of 16 bowis
Take 4 bows white and set them on A B left and D C right and 2 purple bows on A B right and 6 [should be 2] red on C D left and look thy fellows right hand accord with thy left hand and equal then shall ye work as in the cros oliet [T44] and when D right hath changed with D left then change the over bows of yournext hands and reverse all and so begin again.
Source: Serene 59
A Lace Sawter Uliet
Take sixteen bows, eight white, four purple, and four red, and be the two upon A B of thy right hand, and two red upon D C of thy left hand, and four white upon A B left, and C D right, and the right hand of thy fellow be according to thy left hand, and his left hand according to thy right, and then work both in the self manner as is aforesaid, in the Croise Uliet [S53], and when D right hath changed with D left, then shall you change your over bows of your next hands, and then reverse all your bows and begin again.
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