Dyer, Thomas Henry: The ruins of Pompeii: a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains (London: Bell & Daldy, 1867)

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THE RUINS OF POMPEII.

the trade of a fuller. Just opposite the eastern side of Pansa’s house is a
fuller’s workshop, called the Fullonica^ on the walls of which were paintings
representing the operations of the trade. The first operation was that of
washing. This was done in vats, in which the cloths were trodden and well


FULLER AT WORK, FROM A PAINTING IN THE FULLONICA.

worked by the feet of the scourers, as represented in the annexed cut, taken
from the walls of the Fullonica. Their dress, which consisted of two tunics,


CARDING A TUNIC, FROM A PAINTING IN THE FULLONICA.

the upper one green, the under
one yellow, is tucked up so as to
leave the legs bare. Three of
the figures seem to have finished
their work, and to be wringing
the articles on which they have
been employed; the fourth, rest-
ing his arms on a low wall, ap-
pears to be jumping and work-
ing about the contents of his vat
with his feet. When dry, the
cloth was brushed and carded to
raise the nap; after which it
was fumigated with sulphur, and
bleached in the sun. The second
cut represents a man brushing