The heaviest single article in all my undergarments is a quilted petticoat,
BUT: it's cotton on the outside, cotton batting on the inside. In the
period (1750 to, oh, say 1810), this petticoat would more likely have
had wool batting, and either wool broadcloth or silk on the outsides.
I've
At 02:31 PM 9/2/2011, you wrote:
The heaviest single article in all my undergarments is a quilted
petticoat, BUT: it's cotton on the outside, cotton batting on the
inside. In the
period (1750 to, oh, say 1810), this petticoat would more likely have
had wool batting, and either wool broadcloth
I have a queen-sized wool comforter (wool batting between two layers of
egyptian cotton). It weighs less than the much thinner quilted all-cotton
bedspread.
YMMV,
-Helen/Aidan
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My mother has the king-size, wool stuffed, wool scrap pieced, flannel
backed comforter that my great-grandmother made. The wool stuffing is
hand carded, and laid in swirls. (I noticed when I did some repairs on
it a couple years back.) It's impressively heavy; you might suffocate
under it, but
