there is a tv documentary which purports to show that leonardo da vinci could have created the shroud...
Take a small statue, dip it in paint then try to make a photo graphic 2-d image of it. Go ahead, try. If you roll the statue or just simply let the cloth lay on the wet statue you get a distorted image. A wide body image.
The Shroud was first absolutely in modern history put on display by the family of Geoffrey de Charney in France in 1352. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Italy in 1452. I guess it’s possible for da Vinci to do it once he invented the Delorean, the Flux Capacitor, built a road where he could reach 88mph, and get a Mr. Fusion so he could generate 1.21 gigawatts of power, then he could maybe go back and create the Shroud using techniques he never demonstrated during his lifetime.
Picknett and Price sold a lot of books to a lot of ignorant people. . . but their "theory" was a laughing stock to serious scholars.