[Swordmaker]

The significance of the stitching is placing it at the time of Jesus.

There is no "First Century" proof in the stitching..

I just attended a Shroud symposium where Dr. Alan D. Whanger presented some of the photomicrographs of the stitching in question. The significance of the stitching was the DIFFERENCE between the stitching done on the original shroud material and the stitching done in the 1550s by the Nuns of Poor Claire.

The surprising discovery is that the "side strip" long thought to be a separate piece of linen added centuries after the original weaving of the shroud to "center the image on the cloth" is actually not separate at all!!! In fact, there IS NO SIDE STRIP!!! The "Seam" that was thought to join the "side strip" to the shroud is actually a "PLEAT" with the shroud material folded over itself and then basted down to the shroud. The current theory is that the PLEAT was added in antiquity to strengthen the shroud for hanging for display, and for carrying in parades.

The author of this article is not very versed in the latest Shroud scholarship and has mis-reported the findings.

[beckett]

OK so you're saying it's the difference in the stitching, not the older stitching itself. Does that mean the older stitching is done in a technique that might have been commonly found after 100 AD?

If so then this report means very little. And then one has to ask how could an editor at a big daily get it so wrong? I mean, the whole point of this report is to tell us about a stitching technique that was only used before 100 AD.

[cyncooper]

Hello. My post merely directed the poster to the point of the article. I don't believe I offered an argument that it was therefore true as regards to the point made about the stitching.

When I was Googling yesterday (I haven't done much research on the subject as y'all have) I found an article that is several years old that also talked about a seam down the center that indicated first century Holy Land origin so my only thought was this "new revelation" wasn't new at all. But I hope you see I'm not out to persuade anyone that therefore the case is closed. Nope.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Does anyone know if this tv special is showing everywhere on April 7th?

Thanks