[orionblamblam]

> f it traveled in all directions, as it would (and left no traces within the thread) it would leave a residue on sides of the thread where there is no image.

After 650 years? Are you so certain? Wow.

> But since it is already proven that the image is contained
within a carbohydrate layer coating the fibers...

You keep touting that like it's something special. So what if the image is *on* the fibers and not *in* them?

> And this fact that the image is a Melanoidins (amino-carbonyl, Maillard product) is well established in peer reviewed papers (see my previous posts).

I saw one (1) paper that *suggested* that.

[shroudie]

OBB, I stand partly corrected. I had written: And this fact that the image is a Melanoidins (amino-carbonyl, Maillard product) is well established in peer reviewed papers (see my previous posts).

And you replied: I saw one (1) paper that *suggested* that.

I should have said: "And this fact that the image is a Melanoidins (amino-carbonyl product) is well established in peer reviewed papers. The paper suggests that it may be due to a Maillard reaction."