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M*W: Which manufactured shroud would this be? The first, second, or later? Forget about the image for a moment. The cloth was RCD to the 13th-14th century. It could have been lying around in some box until da Vinci got his hands on it. I'll stick to my post.
You're not alone in your opinion. Plenty of people believe Da Vinci was somehow involved in the forgery.