I had this cloth with a cross on it for awhile how old is it?

I'll take a guess. Could be a primitive scapular, homemade. A cord would have been passed through it, then tied loosely around the neck. It's associated with various Catholic devotions.

 

And your guess at the question of how old is it........pray tell ?

 

Ummmmmm... could be ancient, or made recently with ancient stuff, or made recently of new stuff, or made recently of a combination of ancient stuff (olllllld fabric) and new stuff (Magic Marker). How's that, Professor?

EDIT
If the cross is interwoven stitching, as opposed to paint or marker, that would make it more interesting, to me...

 

I don't see any possible way to tell anything about the age of this item....
unless....
you take a sample of the paint and run it through a radio spectrograph at the NCIS headquarters .....or place a sample of the fiber in a mass spectrometer at the Nasa Jet Propulsion Labs.

 

In other words Kingjoker..........you gotta be joking !

 

The mystic in me wants it to be an early (1500s) artifact of first Christian conversions in old Mexico...

 

Well , I don't see a bug or even the tiniest spec of dust on it ....so early 1500's is out of the question.
I'd guess that it's only as old as how long he's had it,

 

I made it in Sunday School in the 70s.(LOL) or could have at least.

 

Aha!

 

What is the fabric made of? If it's a man-made material, that would indicate newer. If it's a natural thread, it could be older. It looks like something you'd get at Lent to wear. When my kids were younger, in Catechism class they got iron nails to keep in their pockets during Lent and some churches made them into rings to wear. I still have a couple around somewhere. IMO it's not terribly old or terribly rare.

 

It is rather shiny for a natural fibre and it doesnt look like silk from here.