Neat, Sorcha. By the way, does the 1870s quilt have a fill? In our family, we made a distinction between quilts and comforters. It may not have been scientific but what we called a 'quilt' normally had no fill although sometimes it had a panel between the top and the back, while our 'comforters' all had cotton or wool batting and were very heavy. Sometimes a comforter had a cotton cover basted onto the upper part of the comforter, the part that would be breathed on, and that could be replaced. But our comforters were never washed, to my knowledge.

When I left home I immediately bought blankets.