my grandmother used her old army wuilts they were made of Wool and sometimes old torn quilts beyond repair. My mother used double knitt material and it is hard to find today. Of course later in life they used gunny sacks as well and then 100% cotton and sometimes used sheets to back them...You name it and they used it 50-60 years ago...

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Some time ago, I sent a picture of a block of my quilt. Well now I have finally finished it and let me tell you it is heavy with all the embroidery!! It was done in the Cotton Theory method of quilt blocks first and then assemble. The embroidery was done with bobbin work with a wool yarn. The pictures do not do this quilt justice like many of yours no doubt. Anyways sigh of relief it is done!!

Mrs Cotton, Your quilt is absolutley beautiful.. I am in aawww.

My DH loves the heavy quilt we have in the winter. I got it when I had to recover a quilt I had made years before.
My mother made my youngest brother a quilt wehn he was a teenager out of wool. It was so heavy he slid under the covers at night & out of bed in the morning and never had to remake the bed!

Ms Cotton, love your quilt, it is beautiful!!

Don't know that off-hand. You can probably Google it, or if you are going to buy some, read the care label on the package.

my mom and grandmother used old wool blankets for battings except for summer quilts ..... kept us so warm in the cold winter ....loved them

I slept under one recently at a friends. It was a wool patch quilt that her grandmother made, and it was heavy. I think it just had cotton or light batting, but the wool on the top added weight.

I have quilts from both my great grandmother and grandmother (one quilt is 120 years old), and they aren't especially heavy. I know that in one quilt there is a wool blanket as batting. And that almost all of them are feed sack, flour sack materials. But the king size quilt I am hand quilting right now is heavier than those old quilts.

Heavy quilt? I used an old polyester blanket in my first quilt (cotton/poly top) and it is a 100" square king size. That must be 30 pounds, easily.

Light quilt - cotton top and flannel back, no batting. Someone on the board calls them a summer quilt.