Wadding is usually a lightly bonded polyester highloft, though cotton and wool versions exist for upholstery and quilting. It is sold by weight and thickness for garment interlinings, quilts, duvets, mattresses and furniture. In North America the same product is usually called batting or fiberfill.
Heard on the job
Wadding for the duvet maker is 150 gram, resin bonded, and they want it in 2.4 meter widths.
Also heard as
- batting
- fiberfill
- padding
Related terms
Highloft
Low-density, thick nonwoven made for bulk and trapped air rather than strength, such as fiberfill and padding.
Batt
Thick layer of fibers built up from several webs, usually by cross-lapping, ready for needling or thermal bonding.
Lo-melt
Shop name for low-melt polyester binder fiber, usually a copolyester sheath on a standard PET core.