Never have more than two warp threads!
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From Paul Ricks- Inventor of the BEAD LOOM-
I have made a wider loom in the past, but discontinued it because (a) it was a slow seller and (b) about 9 inches wide is the widest practical width for this method of looming.
If you go wider than about 4", you must use a much heavier gauge music rod for the warp rods to give them enough strength to resist bowing. This means the rods will have a larger diameter and that would produce an unacceptably large loop in the ends of the warp threads resulting in a "loose" finished project. For the 9" wide loom I produced I used .075 music rod and that was OK. Anything larger is unacceptable.
I have had a few people request looms of greater width and I recommend to them that they make their project in 3" wide strips and square stitch the strips together to make their wider projects.
I hope this answers your question ........
Paul
