Linda Rice wrote:
I got an enormous roll of rough cotton batting from an upholstery
supplier.....
When it's made up and
washed it definitely has that lumpy bumpy look and feel that poly just
can't imitate.
"Lumpy bumpy" is a 20th century phenomena that only happens when quilts
get put into a washing machine. In the 1800's a quilt would have been
hung and beaten, spot cleaned when necessary, and rarely completely
emerged in water. Water makes the quilt quite heavy -- one person would
have trouble lifting it -- and weakens the cotton fibers making them
shred. Normally the filling would have remained quite flat within the
quilt.
You can buy raw cotton by the bale here: http://www.cottonman.com/
Dawn
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