I am getting ready to start a Dear Jane quilt as soon as the software comes. I can remember when I was little I would go stay all night with grandmothers and friends grandmothers or other relatives and the quilts they had always seemed very heavy. I love that heavy quilt feeling when sleeping. The quilts I make today with poly or warm and natural do not have that very heavy feeling. Does anyone know what I can use to get that feeling? Do you think I could use a Double layer of batting?
Has anyone ever tried that ? (I am going to hand quilt)
Hope you dont think I am strange. LOL...

They may have been using wool Batting , that well make them heavy. :D

Some of the very heavy quilts were stuffed with an old quilt or wool blanket(s) and were tied, not quilted. Wool batting would give more of a heft to your quilt and be warmer.

double warm and natural might work, but the key to those old quilts being heavy was the fabric...most of the time they pieced scraps onto old flour/sugar sacks and the backing was the same, bleached out flour/sugar sacks that were made of grid iron muslin! That fabric made for a heavy quilt!
and some times if up North they used old wool blankets for batting, and sometimes even another old quilt!
I have seen it all....

the only heavier quilt is denim/flannel or polyester from the 60's! yikes is it heavy..hehehe

I remember well the weight of quilts when visiting my grandparents. Some winters I slept under 4-5 quilts. They were batted with cotton, most of the time the quilter made the batting as well. I can't remember hearing anyone talk about how they made them. Have any of you. I suspect the other materials were heavier as well.

You might get the 'feel' you are looking by using two battings or I believe there are heavier ones available.

The heaviest quilt I've ever made was made with a matress pad for batting. One of my sons loves it.

I doulbled warm and natural batting. It was warm and heavy. With wool batting does it get washed in a washing machine or does it have to be dry cleaned?

Is wool batting hard to quilt thru ??

Are you sure, it wasn't just because you were small and the quilts might have seemed heavier?

I thought of that.. I wonder if you are right.