Image of my own (beardless!) face, obtained in 2015 via contact imprinting technique, easily realizable in medieval times.
Pre-imprinting! (purely a modern photo as distinct from medieval -type imprint!)
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Conflicting definitions of “sindonology”
1. First, from en.wiktionary
“The study of the Shroud of Turin from a believing perspective”
2. Second, from www.dictionary.
“The scientific study of the Shroud of Turin”
Er, they can’t both be right! Indeed they could be said to be pulling in opposite directions!
So why hasn’t sindonology put its house in order by agreeing on a SINGLE DEFINITION?
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The Shroud of Turin: probably not miraculous, just a simulated sweat imprint – a triumph of medieval joined-up thinking.
Postscript (correction: ‘prescript‘) added July 2019: You have arrived at a 2014 posting. That was the year in which this investigator finally abandoned the notion of the body image being made by direct scorch off a heated metal template … Continue reading
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Tagged fake, forgery, negative image, paradigm shift, Shroud of Turin, simulates sweat imprint, sweat imprint, template, turin shroud
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A flow chart summary of the “hot Templar/hot template”model of the Shroud of Turin
Postscript (correction: ‘prescript‘) added July 2019: You have arrived at a 2014 posting. That was the year in which this investigator finally abandoned the notion of the body image being made by direct scorch off a heated metal template … Continue reading
Was this how the Turin Shroud was made? Read on…
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D enhancement, fingertip control, scorch, template, thermal imprinting, turin shroud
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Antibes market, Saturday 1st December 2012
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antibes Saturday market, brass crucifix, Monsieur Le Scorch, scorch, template
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A compression scorch from a hot template ought theoretically to leave a tell-tale signature on linen…
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged heated template, impaction force, Mark Evans, photomicrograph, pressure, scorch hypothesis, STERA, template, warp, weft
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Thibault’s Principle: true for a stepped template, maybe – but not an artistic bas relief with rounded contours and gentler relief
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Doh! I can think of only 19 reasons why the Shroud image was made by thermal imprinting (“scorching”) onto linen from a heated effigy
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged heated effigy, plaster cast, scorching, Shroudie knocking brigade, template, thermal imprinting
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How long before the grey scales fall from people’s eyes, and the Shroud image accepted as a thermal imprint (“scorch”)??
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged bas relief, death mask, grey scale, plaster cast, sand bed, scorch, Shroud of Turin, template, thermal imprint
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I’m glad you asked me that Paul (even if posted to The Other Site) …
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged bas relief, blood stains, forgery, Mickey Mouse science, Piltdown skull, scorch, Shroud of Turin, template, turin shroud, wounds
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My answer to the steeped-in-mystique Turin Shroud - evolving gradually from some 10 years of science-based experimental modelling. 