[Swordmaker]

It looked that way until it was proved that the sample used for carbon dating was taken from a patch and not from the shroud material.

Actually it was a combination of original Shroud AND 16th Century patch material that varied from 60% to 40% patch depending on where on the original sample the sub-samples were cut. This resulted in the variation in dating reported by the three testing labs results in the four sub-samples tested which did not overlap in their degrees of confidence. THAT should have been a big red-flag that something was wrong.

[zot]

Thanks for the further explanation at your post # 28.

I have read that the interwoven material in the patch was cotton, not linen, which was proved because it glowed under ultraviolet light.