My FIL had one when he was a boy that he loved, and I was recently able to see it. It appeared to be made of leftover home dec fabrics, from the Depression era I think, and was both heavy and ugly, lol. It was very faded and dingy - I wondered if it had spent some time on the garage floor under a car. But he loved that quilt. It brought back lots of memories for him; he spent hours telling me all kinds of stories.
I'm in the process of making a quilt from wool remnants (I live near a Pendleton factory) and it will be pretty heavy.