Founder, Signal & Thread Radio Workshop
Detroit, Michigan
The founder of a neighborhood radio workshop preserving the voices behind a thirty-year craft business.
The record
Mira built Signal & Thread around the belief that useful objects deserve patient care. Her business record preserves the workshop's beginnings, the customers who became teachers, and the lessons she wants the next keeper to inherit.
Story collection
February 1994
A silent tabletop radio became Mira's first public promise.
The owner said the radio mattered because it had announced his wedding day. Mira found the fault, brought the sound back, and decided a repair shop could protect more than machinery.
September 2008
Customers and neighbors helped save a workshop full of unfinished stories.
Water reached the bottom shelves before dawn. By noon, former customers were carrying tools upstairs. Mira remembers the week as a disaster, but also as proof that the workshop belonged to more people than she knew.
June 2025
Mira records the rules that never appeared in the repair manual.
Listen before opening the cabinet. Photograph every wire. Ask why the object matters. And when someone tells you its story, understand that the story is part of what they brought in for repair.
