Silkewerk - Sauntur oliet round

Sauntur oliet round

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, allowing the outer edges to be connected above the braid.

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.]

Exchange A loops on your outer hands:
You: Put your A loop over and around Your Fellow's A, taking his A loop back in exchange unreversed.

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.]

Exchange A loops on your outer hands:
You: Put your A loop over and around Your Fellow's A, taking his A loop back in exchange unreversed.

Repeat these "V" chevron steps a total of eight times, then repeat from the beginning.

Source: Tollemache 48

Sauntur oliet round.
Set 16 bows on your hands as in the lace before [T47] and work in the same manner and when ye have changed the over bows of your next hands then shall ye change the over bows of the further hands and etc.

Source: Serene 60

The same lace round.
Do in the self manner as afore [S59], and when you have changed your overbows of your hinder hands, you shall change your overbows of your further hands, and begin again as before.