Lacing cord for the effigy stays

Because I have decided to be totally and absolutely crazy with this project I've decided to make the lacing cord with tablets. You can make round cords from tablet weaving if you always put the weft in from the same side, thus wrapping the cord while weaving. This is an old technique and there are several examples found in the excavations from medieval London. I will use the thickest of my vegetable dyed silk for warp and a thinner silk for weft. The colours are muted, so it won't be a stunningly beautiful cord, but at least a both functional and period correct one.
I'm using just 3 tablets (4 holes in each) and I'm still afraid it may be to thick for the lacing holes, but one never knows before trying.

The cord

The first trial got too thick. And not very pretty either. I've done quite a lot of tablet weaving, so I don't think it's so much a matter of technique as of taste. Maybe I'll just twist a cord, or use a commercial 5 mm cotton tape. Or try again. But I will take a break from it now and work on my red silk petticoat instead tonight.
If Maja lets me, she's been ill all day, refusing to eat and being really cranky.