Originally Posted by Somebunny
I just cut into a silk dress to make a pillow out of it, and brown paper was all throughout the dress, sewn into the seams. It wasn't newspaper, it was more like construction or freezer papwer, brown in color, not glossy, soft. I was really surprised to be dealing with paper as part of the inside. It was a dress worn during WWII by a woman in a concentration camp.
they probably used it to keep it from sliding every which way and just left it in the seams b/c it was too much trouble to remove.