Shared Language

Women’s culture: The lived field of women’s objects, portraits, and codes in daily life: work, care, movement, ceremony. Say it simply: what women use, make, and make mean.

Admission / Confirmation / Revocation — concise definitions.

Proof: field evidence that a form endures.

Stewardship conditions: environmental and handling criteria that support longevity. Not instructions.

Standards Note: acceptance thresholds for a form or material.

Material Study: how a material ages with pass/fail thresholds.

Ledger code: unique catalog ID, for example MM-INDEX-2025-OBJ-013.

Future Canon: creators and works carrying weight with growing proof.

Codes: silhouettes or practices that travel between makers and contexts. Say it simply: patterns we pass on.