Hobbs Tuscany Cotton Wool 96" Batting Roll

Hobbs Tuscany Cotton Wool 96" Batting Roll is the premium blend roll — cotton's breathability fused with wool's warmth, drape, and needle-ease, at production width for heirloom-tier work.

Product Details

• Fiber: Premium Tuscany-tier cotton-wool blend — each fiber covering the other's weakness
• Format: 96" wide roll — ~3 yards per queen; check listing for roll yardage
• Quilting distance: Within 4"
• Care: Gentle/cool wash, very low tumble or flat dry — moderate cotton-side shrinkage
• Best for: Heirloom and special-occasion quilts, hand-finished commissions, premium year-round bed quilts

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the blend achieve that neither fiber does alone?

Wool alone is maximally warm and lofty but unfamiliar in hand; cotton alone breathes and crinkles but lies flat and needles heavier. Together: wool's drape and glide with cotton's breath and familiar body — the signature of premium blended batting.

Cotton Wool roll or pure Tuscany Wool?

Climate and care: pure wool for maximum warmth and loft; the blend for year-round bed use and slightly friendlier laundering. Show lofts go pure; living-on-the-bed heirlooms go blend.

Why do hand quilters like the blend?

The wool content carries the needle — stitch passage runs close to pure wool's famous ease while the cotton keeps the sandwich familiar under the frame hand.

Roll versus the Cotton Wool packages?

The usual volume rule — packages for occasional premium commissions, this roll for studios where cotton-wool is a standing menu tier.

Thread over the warm blend tone?

Warm neutrals — Cream, Linen, Bone Glide — the standard companions for natural-toned premium batting.