Batting - Stearns & Foster
In the 1950s, with the development of polyester fiber, manufacturers were faced with new opportunity.
The idea of producing a polyester batting was unsettling to many forefathers of Stearns & Foster. They thought that polyester quilt batting would ruin the batting industry and that anyone could make polyester batting. Little did the trustees of Mountain Mist know at the time that polyester batting would eventually become the dominant batting used by quilters.
With the development of polyester fiber and the resurgence of quilting in the 1970s, a new set of batting companies brought their own batting products to the market place.
In the late 1980s and 1990s cotton batting became the new favourite on the market. Needle punch cotton quilt battings are now available from major batting manufacturers both with and without scrim. Currently the 2000s has brought a new generation of batting from June Tailor and Mountain Mist. Both companies have developed an iron basted batting.
Who knows what the future holds!
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