Iconography of the Newfoundland quilt: \npiecing together meaning on the Great Northern Peninsula
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Newfoundland Quilt is part of a pervasive textile-based craft practice on the \nNorthern Peninsula of Newfoundland. This quilt type consists of between sixteen and \nthirty fabric blocks, each block containing an iconic symbol or scene that is of \ncontemporary and/or historical relevance to outport Newfoundland. This thesis highlights \nsome of the more commonly quilted icons in order to demonstrate the ways in which an \nindividual might use a quilt 's surface to express a range of regional values, nostalgic \nsentiments, and personal beliefs. In discussing these factors, this thesis also highlights \nquilting as a textile tradition in Newfoundland, by demonstrating the ways it has \nundergone shifts in form, function and meaning, as the culture itself has faced myriad \nchanges. Since the majority of people who make these quilts are at a post-retirement age, \nthis study connects quilting practices to advance stages of life, as the quilts become a way \nfor older people to address the inevitable changes they have witnessed to their culture, to \ntheir physical bodies, and to the places that they call home. The Newfoundland Quilt type \nis therefore emblematic of the ways in which individuals use creativity to help generate \nand affirm of both individual and shared senses of identity, meanwhile helping them to \nconfront the changes to the culture around them.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".