FULHAM WARE 



3371 



FULLING 



stock companies 

 in America, mak- 

 ing her debut at 

 New York in 1886. 

 Her first appear- 

 ance on the Lon- 

 rlon stage was 



E. Burne - Jones, 

 Lord Lytton,Theo- 

 dore Hook, and 

 Samuel Richard- 

 son. Two members 

 are returned to 

 Parliament. Pop. 

 153,284. See His- 

 tory of Fulham, 

 T. Faulkner, 1813; 

 A Walk from Lon- 

 don to Fulham, 

 T. C. Croker, I860. 

 Fulham Ware. 

 Fine stoneware 

 first produced in 

 1671 by John 

 Dwight (q.v.) at 

 Fulham. It was 

 an imitation of china, semi-trans- 

 parent, with hard, close body of 

 grey colour. Jugs, pots, bottles, 

 butter dishes, and busts were pro- 

 duced. The 

 enamel was 

 brilliant, the 

 colours being 

 largely blue 

 and purple. 

 The decora- 

 t i o ns of 

 flowers and 

 lea ves were 

 raised. Mar- 

 bled pieces 

 were also 

 produced. 

 Dwight gave 

 up in 1746, 

 and was suc- 

 ceeded by 

 White until 

 17G2. The fac- 

 tory is still 

 carried on, 

 stoneware 

 jugs and pots 

 being pro- 

 duced. In 1888 William De 

 Morgan began the manufacture 

 of quaintly shaped pots and pans 

 in lustre ware. 



Fuller. Person whose occupa- 

 tion is to full cloth, or carry out a 

 finishing process by which cloth is 

 thickened and shrunk. The term 



Fulham Ware. Figure 



of Jupiter by John 



Dwight 



Liverpool Museum 



Fulham. Courtyard of Fulham Palace, in Tudor style. 

 Above, part of the 18th century buildings of the Palace 



in 1889, when she played the part 

 of Mercy Baxter in Caprice at The 

 Globe. Her greatest success was, 

 however, in 1891 at the Columbus 

 Theatre, New York, where she in- 

 troduced the Serpentine dance. 

 Her reminiscences, Fifteen Years 

 of My Life, appeared in 1908, 

 followed by Fifteen Years of a 

 Dancer's Life, 1913. 



Fuller, THOMAS (1608-61). 

 English divine and eccles. historian. 

 Born at Aldwinkle, Northants, 

 where his 

 father was rec- 

 tor, and edu- 

 cated at Cam- 

 b ridge, he 

 shared the re- 

 verses of the 

 Royalists dur- 

 ing the Civil 

 War. In addi- 

 tion to private Thomas Fuller, 

 chaplaincies English divine 

 and lectureships, he held at various 

 times the curacy of S. Bene't's, 

 Cambridge, the rectory of Broad - 

 Windsor, Dorset, the curacy of 

 Waltham Abbey, and the rectory 

 of Cranford, Middlesex ; but from 

 1642 till his death depended largely 

 upon his pen for subsistence. 



Fuller was the first to follow 

 Bede in attempting to write the 

 ecclesiastical history of England, his 

 Church History of Britain, a folio 



also applied to a tool used by o f 1,300 pages, being published in 



1655. His History of the Worthies 

 of England was issued in folio in 

 1662. Witty and learned, he was 

 happily described by A. Jessopp, 

 who in 1892 published a selection 

 from his writings, as the Sydney 

 Smith of the 17th century. He 



blacksmiths for shaping iron 

 forcing it into grooves. 



Fuller, LOIE. American actress 

 and dancer. Born at Chicago, she 

 made her first appearance on the 

 stage at the age of two and a half. 

 Later she toured with various 



J. A. Fuller-Maitland, 

 Br it'sn musical critic 



Rutiel1 



died in London, Aug. 16, 1661, 

 and was buried at Cranford. See 

 Life, M. Fuller, 1886. 



Fuller-Maitland, JOHN ALEX- 

 ANDER (b. 1856). British musical 

 critic. Educated at Westminster 

 School and Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, he became musical critic for 

 The Pall Mall Gazette and The 

 Guardian, and 

 later served 

 The Times in 

 the same 

 capacity for 

 many years. 

 He wrote 

 several his- 

 torical and 

 biographical 

 works, includ- 

 ing Masters of 

 German Music, 

 1894, and English Music in the 

 19th Century, 1902, and edited 

 Grove's Dictionary of Music and 

 Musicians, 1904-10. 



Fuller's Earth. Soft, earthy 

 variety of clay, greenish, brownish, 

 oryellow in colour. Chemically a hy- 

 drous, aluminous silicate, it falls to 

 powder on immersion in water. It 

 is found in the Lower Greensand 

 and in Jurassic strata. The geo- 

 logical stratum known as fuller's 

 earth occurs between the Inferior 

 Oolite and Great Oolite in Jurassic 

 series, and extends from Dorset to 

 Gloucestershire. There are also 

 extensive deposits in N. America. 

 It is so named from its use by 

 fullers as a grease absorbent, and 

 is now used in many cleansing 

 preparations and soaps and in the 

 filtration of mineral oils. 



Fulling. Process of cloth finish- 

 ing also known as milling. The 

 operation, which is one of con- 

 siderable antiquity, was originally 

 carried out by treading on the 

 wet cloth with the feet, but is now 

 conducted in a machine. The cloth 

 is saturated with soap and water, 

 twisted rope-like, and passed be- 

 tween vertical rollers, the object 

 being to shrink the cloth in the 

 direction of the weft. The wet 

 cloth is then cuttle d, i.e. stored in 

 an enclosed space, when it shrinks 

 in the direction of the warp. 

 During the process of fulling a 

 piece of wool fabric shrinks to 

 about half the length and half the 

 width. All resemblance to woven 

 fabric is gone, the cloth assuming 

 a felted appearance. The change is 

 caused by the interlacing of the 

 wool fibres. 



Fulling is carried out on wool- 

 len cloth to be used for over- 

 coats and heavy suits, and increases 

 the warmth of the clothing as well 

 as rendering the cloth compara- 

 tively impervious to moisture. 

 See Wool. 



