Silkewerk - Couert of Piole

Couert of Piole

This braid is a color variation of the Compouner coverte of 12 bows [T60] without the periodic twisting of all the loops. It is more distantly related to the flat, 8 loop Lace piole [T11].

Seat Your Fellow on Your right side.

Take twelve departed loops, and place them on the following fingers:
Outer hands: B C D - one color up
Inner hands: B C D - the other color up

Work your own braids:

Inner hands:
A takes through B C D inner, the loop of D outer unreversed.

Outer hands:
A takes through B C outer, the loop of D inner unreversed.

Both:
Lower the inner loops.

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.

Exchange loops on your outer hands:

Both:
Reverse the A loop "downward".

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

Both:
Reverse the A loop "upward" (undoing the twist from the previous step).
Lower the outer loops.

Repeat from the beginning.

Source: Tollemache 61

Couert of piole.
Take 12 bows departed as before [T60] and set 3 bows on B C D on thy right and 3 on B C D on thy fellows left and both of one color and 3 bows on B C D on thy left and 3 on B C D on thy fellows right all of the other color than work in the same manner as in the lace compound couert of 12 bows [T60] and it shall be piold and therefore it is called couert of piole finis [end?]

[Note:
I questioned grouping this with Serene's 12-loop covert braids [S12 below], because the structure is different - different to the point that the Tollemache instructions do not produce a tube-in-tube braid. I'm reluctant to declare them a mistake too quickly, but the braid produced here doesn't fit in anywhere. Only the Serene instructions produce the intent of the Tollemache braid.]

Source: Serene 12

An other Lace of coupen covert depiole.
Take twelve bows in self manner set on thine hands and thy fellows, as is said of the coupen covert of twelve bows [S11] save that in this lace the color shall be beneath of the further hands and the self color above on the next hands, and then work on the self manner, as in the Coupen covert of twelve bows [S11], save that the bows of this lace shall never be reversed.

[Note:
The referenced braid [S11] doesn't call for reversing the loops, but this last line clarifies that reversing there was assumed. This braid is worked the same as the open lace of 5 loops [S5], but with an extra loop on the one hand. It can also be seen as a 6-loop (and therefore less awkward to work) version of the flat lace dawns/piole [S15] but with all the loops taken unreversed to form two braids rather than one joined in the center. Covert braids rely on forming two separate braids into tubes, so this works quite well. In that sense, any open lace can be adapted to make a covert braid.]