This is my favourite fingerloop braid and it’s quite a simple one. It’s from the Harley 2320 manuscript. The original reads:
A green dorge of 6 bowes: Set 4 bowes of one color on B, C right and B, C left, and one bowe of another color on D right, and one bowe of another color on A left. Then take with A right through B, C right the bowe of C left reversed. Then low thy bowe of B left onto C. Then shall B left take through C left the bowe C right reversed. Then low thy right bowes. Then shall A left change with D right, etc
Translation from fingerloop.org.
The braid takes 4 loops of one colour, and one of each of two more. The main colour appears at the edge of the band and the middle alternates between the two others. I think it looks best with the main colour darker than the others so when I’m making an award cord I like to make the main colour blue, with one loop each of white and red. That’s the colour scheme I’ll use here. I’m using 60/2 silk and the resulting cord is only about 2mm wide.
Fingers are numbered from index finger A to little finger D.
Set up with blue on fingers C and D of each hand, red on A left and white on D right.
Take A right through B and C right and take C left reversed.
Drop B left to C left
Take B left through C left and take C right reversed
Drop B right to C right, and A right to B right
Change A left with D right
It to0k me about an hour to weave 60cm of this band. With a thicker thread it would be quicker.
