It was very common.
The style is called crazy quilts when it's a quilt, and ones using all manner of silks in different arangements are not unusual.
The quilt museum has one made entirely of yellow cigar bands, and another with a few hundred miscellaneous silks including the foil printed ribbons from event badges. (But no baseball)
Those two are really impressive.
I bought my wife a chair upholstered in that sort of sewing, including a couple silks and a few handpainted panels. It's some really beautiful work.
Steve B
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