Originally Posted by
majormom
I like to use wool also, and I read somewhere that the wool that is used for batting has been processed and washed so many times that it has been already shrunk and will shrink less that cotton batting. Would someone with allergy to the wool batting be bothered if the batting totally covered by the cotton of the quilt? Just wondering - I'm not allergic to anything.......but work I guess :-)
The majority of wool allergies come from either lanolin that has been left in the wool or the chemical residue from the processing of the wool. I would say that most people would not be bothered by a quilt that contained a high quality wool batting.