Frett oliet rownd
Like most of the braids based on chevrons, this one could have four versions, although only two (and a variation - the lace cressant [T52]) are provided:
| Single flat | Not provided [T51 - Single] |
| Single round | Not provided [T50 - Single] |
| Double flat | Fret oliet brod [T51] |
| Double round | Frett oliet rownd [T50] |
These braids are a 2 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 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.]
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 two 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 steps a total of two times, then repeat from the beginning.
Source: Tollemache 50
Frett oliet rownd.
Set 16 bows on your hands in the manner and color of the lace oundyd [T33] and work both as ye did in the santur [T42] but when thou takest there 4 times upward and downward in this thou shalt take but 2 upwards and 2 downward and when D right hath changed with D left then shall you change the over bows on your next hands and the over bows on your further hands and then reverse all your bows and begin again.
Source: Serene 61
A Lace fret Uliet round.
Take 16 bows of all such colors, and the self manner set on your hands as in the Lace Ound [S60], and then work both as in the Sawter [S59], save in that you take your over bows four sythes [times] downward, and four sythes upward, and in this you shall take but twice downward, and twice upward, and after that the right D hath changed his bow with A left [should be D left], then shall you change your overbows of your next hands and of your further hands also, snd then shall you reverse all your bows and begin again.
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