It is a flax cloth 4.42 meters long and 1.13 meters wide , woven in a herringbone pattern. A finely crafted burial cloth, not particularly common in the funerary traditions of the Jews and other ancient peoples, the Shroud bears a double image (frontal and dorsal) of a human body with evident signs of torture. It is the imprint of a life-size man lying on one half of the linen, with the other half of the cloth folded over his head down to his feet, so as to create a double silhouette, head to head, one frontal and one dorsal .