Originally Posted by
Havplenty
i'm curious since you have used this method, once the paper batting is washed it dissolves how do these quilts hold up over time? i have washed my jeans with paper left in the pockets and it either wads up in a hard pieces and disintegrates. i cannot imagine that this can be any sort of lasting batting and the quilt ends up being just two pieces of fabric with paper fragments or mush inside. how does this work?
I'd guess by the quilting! The paper in your pockets is not secured into a shape in any way and can fly about at will. Paper inside a top, a bottom and enclosed by quilting on all sides, can "melt" into any state it wants, and when it dries it will be back to its original location, shape and state.
Again, that's pretty much how paper making works so I'm guessing it would have to be the same.