Confessions of a Red Thread Bandit Queen:\nTen Years of Fieldwork with Narrative Embroidery
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I confess to living a life full of unexpected experiences trying to remove the bark from the tree of commercialism and finding the ever-fruitful world of contemporary textiles made by traditional artisans. This presentation is a series of confessions brought to light through fieldwork, teaching and working in India and Canada / there and here / two worlds made into one. We begin with the six images connected to confessions or thoughts to live by:\nAlways dream that something is possible. I confess that I can be very stubborn when it comes to realizing these dreams. When I first saw sujuni and khatwa I thought of the appliqué wall hangings of Inuit women from Baker Lake in Nunavut, Canada. Memories of childhood visits to TB hospitals in Edmonton and the wonderful dolls the Inuit women made to pass the time. And I wondered from the Santal community in India what it would be like for these women to meet those women. Through the magic of many people it happened in the very building we are standing in today. At Harbourfront Center in Toronto, the York Quay Gallery in the summer of 2004 was the exhibition “Images tell the Stories, Thread has a life of its’ own.\nDuring twenty-five years of teaching in the West, I worked with everything from the practical elements of design, textile technology to material culture history. Since ‘reinvention’ in 2002 I have endeavored to practice meaning in life by working with narrative textiles that tell a meaningful story in real time. I am interested in cloth that reflects the skill of history in the excitement of the present. This is cloth that becomes a teller of tales and a keeper of the important ideas that keep cultures alive.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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 it