Old wool batting
06-10-2011, 11:12 PM
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I don't know beans about batting, but it's interesting to know that something like that in earlier times was considered worth conserving. These days the postage to send it back to be re-carded would outweigh the value, possibly. I have a wild hunch that some quilting history museum might be interested in it. I never knew about this process of maintaining wool batting, and it seems like information that should be noted, especially because the process of getting it out of the quilt and then back in and retying it later involved quite a lot of labor - more woman's work that I never even knew about.
I don't know beans about batting, but it's interesting to know that something like that in earlier times was considered worth conserving. These days the postage to send it back to be re-carded would outweigh the value, possibly. I have a wild hunch that some quilting history museum might be interested in it. I never knew about this process of maintaining wool batting, and it seems like information that should be noted, especially because the process of getting it out of the quilt and then back in and retying it later involved quite a lot of labor - more woman's work that I never even knew about.
06-11-2011, 02:19 AM
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i would use them- if you really have no interest using wool batts- maybe stop by a lqs and talk to them there- maybe they have a bulletin board or newsletter and would let you (advertise) them-
i would not think anyone would pay alot for them- maybe 1/2 or what a new wool batt would run....
i love working with wool batts-they are my favorite- i pick up old wool blankets at yardsales-thrift stores just to recycle wool fibers..wool is so very nice to work with.
i would not think anyone would pay alot for them- maybe 1/2 or what a new wool batt would run....
i love working with wool batts-they are my favorite- i pick up old wool blankets at yardsales-thrift stores just to recycle wool fibers..wool is so very nice to work with.
06-11-2011, 03:26 AM
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Don't know much about value. I grew up in Northern Wisconsin with those kind of tied together 'quilts' WARM!!! We had a 2 story house with gravity heat so my sister and I used to roll up in the quilt and keep toasty warm. Years later, Mom had two batts combed together and decided they were too warm so she threw them out... I'm glad you still have yours. I've never had a quilt as warm since.
06-11-2011, 05:11 AM
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I sort-of inherited a quilt made with wool batting. A person gave it to me to wash for him. I took it apart and saw it was wool, knowing a man would not know how to take care of it, I made him an all new quilt that could be washed. And made our family a new quilt with the wool in. Every household should have one wool quilt here in northern Wisconsin. When the furnace goes out, a cold wet nasty day, like to-day, or when some one is ill. There is NO warmth like a wool quilt.
06-11-2011, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by RuthCars
My mother saved two wool batts from the 1940s that were in the tied quilts we had on our beds as kids. I, in turn, saved them all these years but never used them. They're about 87x62 inches. I believe they were purchased from the St. Peter (MN) woolen mill, at least that's where my mother would send them to be recarded occasionally.
I'm hoping that someone on this message board will advise me about their value. Besides their sentimental value to me, do these batts have any commercial value if I were to try to sell them?
I'm hoping that someone on this message board will advise me about their value. Besides their sentimental value to me, do these batts have any commercial value if I were to try to sell them?
However, if they were mine, I would send them to St. Peter Woolen Mill and have them recarded and sewn into a duvee.
You would get years of service from them.
06-11-2011, 05:44 AM
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This is an interesting thread, my grandmother only used wool batting and I remember helping to take the quilts apart every year for cleaning and then retieing them.
Last year I talked to a wool shop and they told me you can use a wool bat in a quilt, and just wash it in the quilt. The friction of the fabric and wool will cause it to felt, and you will still end up with a warm quilt. I never have tried this, but I want to with a crib size quilt, just to see what will happen. It would shirley be warm. Has anyone tried this?
Last year I talked to a wool shop and they told me you can use a wool bat in a quilt, and just wash it in the quilt. The friction of the fabric and wool will cause it to felt, and you will still end up with a warm quilt. I never have tried this, but I want to with a crib size quilt, just to see what will happen. It would shirley be warm. Has anyone tried this?
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