Very informative. Thank you! So shrouding Him in a tablecloth was actually a very expensive burial garment. Perhaps more evidence that Joseph of Arimanthea was the owner of the room where the Last Supper was held...
As I recall, I read somewhere that Mary herself made Christ’s seamless garment (the one the soldiers gambled for) and it was doubly meaningful because only priests wore seamless garments.
Thank you so much for your response.
I don't know that Mary made the seamless garment. It does, however, mean that it also represents a very skilled artisan's time and effort were spent on making a garment to fit him personally, or at least someone of his stature and build. It would have been woven (read knitted) in one continuous piece. . . again, representing many hours of work.