Padding vs. Quilting — What's the Difference?

Padding is thin cushioned material sometimes added to clothes. Padding may also be referred to as batting when used as a layer in lining quilts or as a packaging or stuffing material.

Quilting is the term given to the process of joining a minimum of three layers of fabric together either through stitching manually using a needle and thread, or mechanically with a sewing machine or specialised longarm quilting system. An array of stitches is passed through all layers of the fabric to create a three dimensional padded surface.

The act of stuffing, filling, or lining.

The process of doing quilted work.

A soft material used to make pads or a pad.

Material used to make quilts.

Something added, especially extraneously or fraudulently

Material that has been quilted.

Present participle of pad

A layer or layers of quilted padding.

Soft filling material used in cushions etc.

A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.

(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

The practice of creating quilts

Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.

Present participle of quilt

Anything of little value used to fill up space.

The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.

(obsolete) Robbing on a highway.

A quilting bee. See Bee, 2.

The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

The material used for making quilts.

The material with which anything is padded.

A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.

Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

Stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design

The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

A material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric

Artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort