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This is awesome, and am so tempted to try.... one question, how long did it take to physically complete this! Also I know you had to "repair" the string a few times, but is this a 2mi single thread?

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I don't remember exactly, it's been 5 years, but I remember there were almost 4000 loops. The loom is a little less than a meter across, but most loop don't span the entire width of the loom, so half a meter per loop is a good estimate, which would yield 2 kilometers. I think that's only 20 euros worth of thread.

Similarly, assuming the average loop took me 10 seconds to do, that amounts to about 10 hours, and I do remember that the final step only took a day or 4, with a few hours of work every evening.

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