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More on was the sample used in the Jull paper NOT from the Shroud of Turin?

Of the five knowledgeable people who initially thought that the fragment examined by Jull was not from the Shroud of Turin because it did not seem to be a 3-over-1 twill weave, four have gotten back to me. Those four people examined the problem further. All four of them have changed their minds and now concur that it is a 3-over-1 twill weave.

It just didn’t look like a 3-over-1 twill from the reverse side. Giulio Fanti sent me the following. It is a photograph of a piece of linen made to be exactly like the Shroud of Turin’s fabric pattern. On the left, the top is clearly 3-over-1. The bottom left shows how much the backside looks like a 2-over-1. It is clear how someone might have become confused. The right side of the image uses backlighting to reinforce how these patterns look:

This does not vindicate the Jull paper. It merely gets us past one problem.

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