heron

Over coffee this morning, I was looking at some old quilts in various museum collections (via the Internet of course) and ran into a term I'm unfamiliar with: "quilted and stuffed."

I can see the results, but how did they do that? What's the process, what are the steps, what materials were used? I'm having trouble finding a reference on the web. Anyone know?

Examples:

SusieQOH

That's trapunto. If you google it or go on Youtube you can see how it's done.

PaperPrincess

Yes, trapunto.
BTW, if you just hit the return key to get to a new line, you can just paste the URL and it will automatically create a hot link when your post is saved.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/14827

Tartan

There were several methods for putting the “stuffed” areas of trapunto. Some used string on a needle to stuff vines and channels. Some slit the back of a top under the appliqué and put in bits of batt and then hand stitched the slit closed before making the quilt sandwich. They then usually did lots of quilting around the trapunto to make them pop.

roguequilter

your description for stuffed work is what my grandmother, who raised me, taught me when i was very young. i went to live with her at age 5. she called it stuffed work. she didn't teach me trapunto, the technique of pulling yarn thru raised quilted areas & she didn't use the technique in quilt i inherited from her estate. she seemed to enjoy complex piecing more than fancy work. except when it came to her cut-work, which i was learning too.

heron

Thanks, everyone! Found this info:

Trapunto, or “stuffed work” was traditionally worked by hand, usually after a quilt was layered and quilted. In areas to be stuffed, the threads of the backing were pushed apart, or even cut, to create a hole large enough to stuff batting into the space in between the top and backing and inside the quilted lines. Special needles and other tools were used to push batting or cording into small spaces or quilted channels. This extra batting created textured motifs on the front of the quilt.

Jingle

Welcome from Missouri.

PaperPrincess

There are several more modern methods out there that you can do by machine. One general method is that you place a piece of batting under the motif you want to trapunto, stitch around the motif, cut the excess batting, then sandwich the whole piece as you would usually do. this gives you a double batt in the desired areas. Another way is to double batt, with a fluffier batting on the top, then quilt the heck out of the areas surrounding your tapunto. This depresses those areas making your trapunto stand out.

Dodie

There was one method when panty hose were in called the puff quilt and I still have the pattern. Was mostly done by hand, 2 squares sewed together stuffed with panty hose then hand stitch squares together it made a warm puffy quilt maybe you can still find it out there someplace if you google puff quilts