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Making batting was once very labor intensive. The cotton bolls were picked by hand by family or often slave labor. The cotton bolls had to be dried, with the seeds and debris removed by hand. It was then carded (combed) into small batts. The batts were placed between the layers of the quilt top and back, then very close hand quilting held the layers together.

Wool blankets and extra clothing were often substituted as batting. Eventually the invention of the cotton gin, which separated the cotton from its seeds, made cotton faster and easier to process.

Cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney (1794)