Both radiocarbon-dating corner and main Shroud show evidence for | References | |
References corner | References main Shroud | |
(retrograded) starch | [87] [93] [94] [96] | fact A15 of [69] ; [87] [88] [90] [141] |
cotton fibers | [87] [141] [153] | [93] ; appendix of [153] |
flaked yellow carbohydrate coating in scorch areas | [87] [99] [141] | [130] ; fig. VII-3 of [141] ; [154] [155] |
anomalous yellow-green fluorescence | [4] | [15] [27] |
occasional rose madder (aluminum lake) particles stuck to non-image fibers while wet (probably from airborne dust that got stuck to and mordanted the drying dye) | [87] [99] | [156] -[159] |
pentoses or furfural (from scorched hemicellulose) in scorch (not in not-scorch) | [141] [160] ; cf. [122] | [141] ; cf. [122] |
no Arabic gum, for no proteins or denatured proteins detected; gum in corner can be scorched starch = starch gum | [87] [89] [161] | [88] [162] |
same relative concentrations of calcium, strontium and iron, probably from the retting of the flax stems | [45] on main Shroud and 1973 Raes threads results; [150] [151] | |
pectins | [89] | |
aluminum in waterstains | [152] | |
continuous radiographic bands in large corner area, also through the side seam into the side strip | [151] [152] , Figure 7 of [45] | |
transmitted light photo showing continuous bands (also through side seam) “disproves the hypothesis that the Shroud was rewoven in that area” ( [163] p. 9) | [151] ; Figure 6 of [163] | |
similar PMS spectra | [122] , described in Section 4.6 | |
similar FT-IR spectra. Radiocarbon FT-IR “shows physical characteristics of both the waterstain and scorch regions of the cloth.” ( [14] p. 98) | [14] [16] ; cf. Section 4.6 | |
radiocarbon sample is in midst of scorch mark and at edge of pre-1532 waterstain | [1] [15] [97] [110] [160] | |
threads of Raes and radiocarbon corner have loom-indentations due to having been woven on a loom, so not inserted by thread-by-thread ‘French weaving’ | [98] [153] | |
no shown vanillin difference. “No samples from any location on the Shroud gave the vanillin test.” ( [141] p. 43) | [99] [122] [141] [164] | |
no developed color difference between Shroud and dyed assumed ‘patch’ | [1] [160] | |
not the slightest hint of a mending operation, a patch or some kind of reinforcing darning on whole Shroud, front and reverse | Textile expert and Shroud conservator Flury-Lemberg [123] | |
apparently the same stitching of the hem (hem rolled across the seam) and the same unusual (first-century Jewish type of) stitching of seam (2 lines of overhand sinusoidal sewing) | [123] [165] | |
no black straight sewing thread of patch in X-ray, for there is no opaque black material in X-ray | [97] | |
no vertical seam of stitched-in patch but continuous float and weft threads | [95] [97] | |
2-ply S-twist sewing thread of side-seam complies with 1-ply Z-twist of weave | [97] | |
Raes thread #1 no ‘spliced’ thread but thread only partly dyed/dirtied because other part was protected inside hem or seam; its thread ends are chemically similar and with unexpected silicon throughout length of thread | [17] [166] ; cf. Figure 3 of [163] | |
the greasy dirt on the corner can explain different color in ‘UV-photo’ | [100] [123] | |
all bottom corners of the Quad Mosaic images of the Shroud are green, also where the Shroud has no corner, apparently due to not-uniform illumination | [97] [167] |