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Why wasn’t the cotton thread identified in 1988?
Actually, it was. The information, surprisingly, was not considered important.
An article in Textile Horizons by P. H. Smith, entitled
Rogue Fibers Found in Shroud,” was published in 1988 that speaks of the discovery of “a fine dark yellow strand [of cotton] possibly of Egyptian origin, and quite old . . . it may have been used for repairs at some time in the past, or simply bound in when the linen fabric was woven.
This cotton was found by Smith while examining samples on behalf of the Oxford laboratory. This is important information that was simply ignored.
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