Word: linens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...womenswear, which he started just last year but which already, he says, does four or five times the business of his men's line. This is partly because as a bona fide all-American, good-looking, young and talented man in the fashion industry, Bartlett attracts hype the way linen attracts wrinkles. And hype sells clothes. But it's also partly because the man has an eye. He hasn't attracted big bucks yet. Revenues this year will be somewhere around the $4 million mark, or 2.5% of Ralph Lauren's 1997 advertising budget. But for a little...
...consider the evidence presented by Walter C. McCrone, Ph.D., a member of the 1978 Shroud of Turin Research Project. In numerous articles and a recent book, McCrone has shown that there is no blood on the shroud. The image on the linen was created with artist's pigments. CRAIG DELLER Geneva...
...scientists retreated to their labs. In October of the same year, the Oxford team gave a press conference at the British Museum. To eliminate suspense, they had helpfully written two dates on a chalkboard behind them: "1260-1390!" This estimated span for the origin of the shroud's linen was later detailed in an article co-written with the other two labs for the journal Nature, which straightforwardly stated that the radiocarbon-dating results "provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is medieval." Nuclear physicist Harry Gove, who helped develop the radiocarbon-dating process used...
...book touches on such points as Roman graffiti, the readouts of a machine called the VP-8 Image Analyzer, grisaille (monochrome gray) painting and the feeding habits of the ibis. He discusses the musculature of the brow and the existence of the twill-and-herringbone weave in ancient Palestinian linen, and in a footnote he downplays the possibility that the image on the shroud is that of a leader of the Knights Templar who was crucified before being executed. But he also keeps an eye on the basics. What does he feel he can say unequivocally about the shroud? "Based...
...skew the radiocarbon dating by 1,300 years. What is more, this coating--which is transparent and thus invisible to the naked eye--cannot be removed by the conventional cleaning methods of most radiocarbon labs. Properly cleaned, says Mattingly, "I think you'd find out the [shroud's] linen is much older, though I don't know by how much...