When I was a child, we slept under quilts made by my mother's grandmother, who raised her. She must have been born around the 1850s. I don't know when the quilts were made, but it had to be no later than the 1920s or early '30s. They were pretty much in tatters, but what I wouldn't give to have them now. I had no idea what we really had. They were just warm bedding for us. Some of them had become so worn when she still had them that she used the worn ones as batting for the new ones, so they were multi-layer wonders. I don't know if someone will still be using mine a hundred or more years from now -- I just hope they value them more than we did our great-grandmother's.