From Knight’s American mechanical dictionary by Edward Henry Knight. (J.B. Ford and Company copyright 1872, Hurd and Houghton copyright 1876) Page 1849.
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Quilting. 1. Loom-made quilts appear to be two distinct cloths, tied, as it were, together by stitches which go through both cloths, and by the crossing and interchange of warp-threads from the lower to the upper set, and vice versa, in the manner of the two-ply carpet. In some quilting a third shuttle throws in a quantity of coarsely spun cotton, to serve as a kind of wadding.
2. (Nautical.) Braided or plaited sennit over a bottle, etc.
Quilt’ing-frame. A frame on which fabric is stretched for quilting. The old-fashioned frame was as large as the quilt, and the modern conveniences are to secure compactness and facility of exposure of that part on which work is proceeding, the other portion being covered from the dust.
Fig. 49085 is a frame with the jointed leaves, which fold u against the standard.
In Fig. 4086, two rollers are journaled in the front ends of the frame and one in the rear. On the outer front roller is wound the outside portion of the article to be quilted, and on the inner roller is wound the lining. The part quilted is wound on the rear roller.
