Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . hing, which was donewith water mixed with some detergent clay, or fullers earth :soap does not appear to have been used. This was done invats, where the cloths were trodden and well worked by thefeet of the scourer. The preceding cut, taken from the wallsof the Fullonica, represents four persons thus dress is tucked up, leaving the legs bare: it consists of * One of the bakeries in
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . hing, which was donewith water mixed with some detergent clay, or fullers earth :soap does not appear to have been used. This was done invats, where the cloths were trodden and well worked by thefeet of the scourer. The preceding cut, taken from the wallsof the Fullonica, represents four persons thus dress is tucked up, leaving the legs bare: it consists of * One of the bakeries in the House of Pansa seems to have had a shopattached to it.—Ed. FULLONICA. 363 two tunics, the under one being yellow and the upper of them seem to have done their work, and to bewringing the articles on which they have been employed;the other, his hands resting on the wall on each side, isjumping, and busily working about the contents of his dry, the cloth was brushed and carded, to raise the nap—at first with metal cards, afterwards with thistles. A plantcalled teazle is now largely cultivated in England for thesame purpose. The cloth was then fumigated with sulphur,. Carding a Tunic; from a painting in the Fullonica. and bleached in the sun by throwing water repeatedly uponit while spread out on gratings. In the preceding cut theworkman is represented as brushing or carding a tunicsuspended over a rope. Another man carries a frame andpot, meant probably for fumigation and bleaching; the potcontaining live coals and sulphur, and being placed underthe frame, so that the cloths spread upon the latter woidd befully exposed to the action of the pent-up vapour. The 364 P01IPEII. person who carries these things wears something on his head,which is said to be an olive garland. If so, that, and the owlsitting upon the frame, probably indicate that the establish-ment was under the patronage of Minerva, the tutelarygoddess of the loom. Below is a female examini
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