Microscope View of Fibers with Image Color
The cellulose fibers that make up the yarn
(thread) are from the woody stems of flax plants. The fibers are
about about 15 microns thick. By comparison, a typical human hair
is about 100 microns in diameter. About 70 to 120 fibers are spun
together to make the linen yarn used to weave the cloth. You can
clearly see the fibers, the yarn, and the weave of the cloth in
this picture.
Notice that some of the fibers have a golden,
caramel color. It is this color that actually produces the images
on the Turin Shroud.
It should be noted that, mistakenly, at
different times during the last 25 years, different
researchers have assumed that it was either a change of color to
the fibers themselves or a pigment that coated the fibers.
See:
Forensic Science CSI: The
Pictures of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin - The Science Quest for
the Historical Jesus
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