Originally Posted by
Slowvehicle
My Dear Mr. Savage:
You have not the expertise to pretend to equate Mme. F-L's exhaustive examination of the actual CIQ with M&P's second-hand conjectures about "...some patching" that they have invented to explain the "wrong" date.
You claim not to be ignoring it; you are certainly dismissing it.
Observation can produce evidence. Conjecture does not.
Did you miss the part where a "French" reweave is "smaller than a dime"?
BTW, what do all these sources say about the effect that a French re-weave will have on non-visible "banding patterns"?
I propose that it would be as obvious as could be. Even if not, it would certainly cause a disruption.