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Comment on Wikipedia Text: material historical analysis
. . . in referece to the wikipedia text,
material historical analysis
What is glaringly missing from this section (and it should probably be a section by itself) is a discussion of banding also commonly referred to as the variegated patterns.
Researchers discovered that these patterns of alternating bands of darker and lighter threads in the cloth. Ancient linen was often manufactured by bleaching the thread in batches before weaving, thus producing nonuniform whiteness in the cloth.
This is clearly not how cloth was manufactured in medieval Europe but is how cloth was produced in and about and around the Middle East in the first century.
In medieval Europe, linen was first soaked in varying concentrations of lye which softened the lignin. After clear water washing to remove the lignin, the linen was soaked in sour milk free of cream. The acids in the sour milk gradually dissolved any mineral impurities. After another washing, this time with strong soap, the linen was spread out in fields and exposed to the action of the sun and weather for some weeks, being kept moist by frequent sprinklings with water.
The banding is reagent to many other aspects of the shroud's possible authenticity and image formation.
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