Hobbs Tuscany 100% Bleached Cotton Batting Package is the premium cotton tier in bright white — select longer-staple Tuscany fiber, bleached luminous, the show-quilt batting for white and light work.
Product Details
- Fiber: Select-grade, longer-staple 100% cotton — Hobbs' premium Tuscany tier, bleached bright white
- Sizes: Pre-cut packages — Crib, Twin, Full, Queen, King
- Quilting distance: Within 2" — built for the dense fine quilting the fiber rewards
- Shrinkage: 3–5% first wash — full heirloom crinkle
- Best under: White-on-white wholecloth, competition whites, pastel and bright show tops
Frequently Asked Questions
- Tuscany Bleached or Heirloom Bleached cotton — the white-cotton fork?
- Fiber grade — Tuscany's longer-staple select cotton needles softer and hands finer; Heirloom is the standard tier. Competition and heirloom whites justify the Tuscany premium; utility whites don't need it.
- Why is it the white wholecloth spec?
- The genre demands both of Tuscany's strengths at once — maximum batting brightness so the white reads luminous, and maximum needle-ease so thousands of dense stitches stay fine and even.
- The 2" distance — constraint or feature?
- Feature in this tier — pure cotton needs close quilting anyway, and the projects buying Tuscany (dense feathers, fills, trapunto-style work) quilt far closer than 2" by design.
- Full-sandwich brightness system?
- Bleached Tuscany + white backing + 451 Blizzard or 401 Snow So Fine! — optically consistent white at every layer, the competition-white formula.
- Bleached or Unbleached Tuscany?
- The top's value, as always — this under whites and brights; the Unbleached under reproduction naturals where cream is the point.
