polyester the wool batting provides warmth and is lightweight wool batting can be used in whole cloth quilted fabric in this invention also silk or rayon or lyocell batting can be used for this invention blended fibers such as cotton and polyester blended can be used as batting in addition to any combination of the aforementioned batting fibers the choice of batting for a quilt or quilted fabric is generally determined by these factors use of the quilt or quilted fabric whether it is needed for warmth desired fiber natural or synthetic whether done by machine or hand distance of stitch lines and appearance the type of batting fiber and how it is processed affects its performance during and after the quilting process most quilt batting is made with a bonding or a needle punched process and either process will produce the desired effect batting that is plain or garneted will require the quilt lines stitching in any pattern to be closer together generally u00bc to 1 inch apart to prevent bunching or shifting this applies to all quilts not only to whole cloth quilts or whole cloth quilts with the antiquing process of the present invention based on the inventor 39 s research both cotton batting and polyester batting work for the invention the surface effects are different but both can be antiqued to the desired appearance if a u201c rippled effect u201d or puckering is also desired in addition to the antiquing then batting susceptible to shrinkage meaning cotton or the like and not polyester is used also wool silk rayon lyocell and any combination of the fibers can be.