When I was a teenager, I met a lady who made quilts using newspaper as a foundation. Her quilts were a crazy quilt type. I say type, because they were not fancy as some of the ones we see in museums and books. They were strickly utilitarian. She said she left the paper in. She started making quilts like this during the depression, because this is all they had. Also, she used scraps of fabric from well-worn clothes that just couldn't be mended anymore.
How far we have come. Most of us wouldn't think about cutting good pieces from a worn garment. And I am so glad.