Seminole patchwork

Seminole patchwork, referred to by Seminole and Miccosukee women as Taweekaache (design in the Mikasuki language),{{Cite web |date=2017-04-10 |title=Patchwork |url=https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sflarch/collections/seminole-dolls/patchwork/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719091607/https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sflarch/ethnographic-collections/seminole-dolls/patchwork/ |archive-date=2024-07-19 |access-date=2021-03-10 |website=Florida Museum |language=en-US}} is a patchwork style made from piecing colorful strips of fabric in horizontal bands.{{Cite book|last=Downs|first=Dorothy|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/912815230|title=Art of the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Indians|date=1995|publisher=University Press of Florida|others=University Press of Florida|isbn=0-8130-1536-7|location=Gainesville|oclc=912815230}} Seminole patchwork garments are often trimmed with a rickrack border. Early examples of this technique are known from photographs in the 1910s, and its use by Seminole women in garment construction began to flourish in the 1920s.{{Cite web |title=Seminole Clothing |url=https://www.semtribe.com/stof/culture/seminole-clothing |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207191747/http://www.semtribe.com/stof/culture/seminole-clothing |archive-date=2023-12-07 |access-date=2021-03-10 |website=Semtribe |language=en}} Seminole patchwork has historically been an important source of income for many Seminole women, and today remains a source of cultural pride. Fashion designers, including Donna Karan, have been criticized for their appropriation of this patchwork style.{{Cite web|title=Seminole Patchwork: Admiration And Appropriation|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/18/510241789/seminole-patchwork-admiration-and-appropriation|access-date=2021-03-10|website=NPR.org|language=en}}