Sometimes batting as we know it was not what was used. My mom took one of our old quilts apart to put a new binding on it and discovered that there was a blanket inside. She said that back in the day, they also used a different type of "batting". It wasn't like what we used to day and would come apart and bunch up especially when washed in a washing machine. My mom told me that back in the day, they rarely washed quilts. They just put them outside and aired them and spot cleaned as needed.