My favorite quilt of all time was an antique double wedding ring top given to my father in exchange for legal work sometime in the 1920s or 30s. Most of the fabric in the slices was very light weight, what we would consider batiste or voile today and say was too thin to be suitable for quilting. We had it quilted in the early 60s and it was used regularly into the late 90s when it finally became too threadbare to continue washing. And it was mostly the muslin and the binding (a regular solid cotton fabric from the 60s) that were wearing out, not the "too thin" fabrics.