Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-03
EXPERTS MAKE
IRISH CLOTH
Examples May Be Seen This
Week 6y Women of City.

Various places mentioned in the legend
of st. Patrick's bell and the bell itself
are woven in pictorial form into mar.
velous hand-woven Irish linen cloth on
exhibition this week at l.. S. Ayres & Co.
Housewives Of Indianapolis will have an
opportunity to see the steps taken in the
manufacture of linen and to examine this
and other of the finest examples of the
linen manufacturers art at the exhibit
on the fourth floor and in the Meridian
street window.
The DerryvaIe Linen Company is one
Of the best known manufacturers of fine
Irish linen from the north of Ireland
It's headquarters are in Belfast, but since
1910 it has had a sales agency in the
United States and since the close of the
war a complete manufacturing plant has
been opened at Garden City. Long Island,
and skilled linen workers from the COM
panys mills in Ireland supervise the
work done in these mills.
A feature Of the fourth floor exhibits
is a group Of six tables set for formal
Iuncheons, dinners, and other services
according to the best New York authori-
ties on the subject. Examples Of fine
lunch cloths, tea napkins, towels, table
linen and embroidered pieces are shown,
as well as coIOred linen manufactured
by the Derryvale process Of block print
ing by which colorings are SO perfectly
blended with the cloth that they have all
the appearance Of having been dyed.
The legend Of Saint Patrick's Bell' as
woven on the table cloth follows: I'm
Olden Irish times there was the saying
AS lucky as the Bell of Saint Patrick"
The origin Of that saying goes back a
few hundred years to 432 A. D. Saint
Patrick is said to have landed in Ireland
as the first Apostle Of Christianity. Much
research has been made, and stm1Itan-
eously many statements have been de-
clared as to st. Patrick's birthplace. We
know authenticity that he spent some
time rs a swineherd in Slen1ish County,
Antrim, receiving further education at
Tours, France. He returned to Armagh
Ireland. He settled afterward at Down.
patrick on the South shore Of Strangford
Tough, and returned prior TO the date
OF his death there Ass A d.. He gave
bells to all churches and ecclesiastical
establishments which were founded By
him, in Ireland, as the Clog an Edachta,
described at st. Parick's Bell, or "The
Bell of Armagh"
THAT bell passed into the hands Of
st. COlumcille period 661 A D. $50. In
ODonnelrs Life Of COLUMBIA appears the
first passing of this bell from one Saint
to another in an ode Of eight verses,
among which is this quatrain:
There shan be red gold round its Dor:
ders;
MANY shall be the Kings who VIII treas
ure it
"Woe to the person who hides It.
Woe to the house, and woe 10 the
tribe"
There was certainly a prophecy con-
nected Herewith to be realized. The
bell was lost throughout centuries. There
have been many references to 1t, and IN
1928 the -Four Masters styled 1t 'Ths
Bell of Patricks Will and DR.. O'Dono-
van accepts tho description as denotins
a bequest of this Saint. There ars
many Irish legends handed down from
grandfather TO son, and from son to
grandson. and undoubtedly this one con-
nected with Ireland's patron Saint is au-
thenticated In every particular.
1.-THE bell itself is quadrllataral. formed
Of two plates of sheet iron, which are
bent over TO meet, and are fastened to-
gether by large-headed iron rivets. It
might not be called esthetic from the
art aspect, but the shrine g. e., the
cOvertng) exhibits some of the finest ex-
amples known of the old Celtic art.
"These are represented on the Damask
Of Derryvale land "Derryvale" itself
means an lakewood, for strangely eES<#Ar
the battle Of Christianity in those
was against the Druids, whose wo ~
was in Oak Woods. To go into the -
tory and travail Of St Patrick's Bell
wander through the history of civ
tion itself. The Bell Of Saint Patrick
hidden often during hundreds of Y
and yet as often reappeared. 1t was
earthed at Stewartstown in Co IS 81
Tyrone. It was again discovered &
Slane Abbey. 1t vanished once NOR ~ S
again reveal itself at Shane's Castl s
the possession of the O'Neills, who
descendants of Mall Of the Nins Hosts s<5
st. Columcille's Clan of 561 A.
Many centuries had elapsed during
interim between ass A. D. and 179I
Bell was oequeated by a story ~
proves the old dictum that ''TruH 81 u
outruns fiction" And for the Bs<<
Saint Patrick itself, it journeyed to <S
during the great exposition there in
Now 1t remains in the Royal Irish Az
envy. Dublin, one of the most treasu # q
of all the treasures of ireland "the Il
of Saints" Undoubtedly "as lucky as
Bell of Saint Patrick" is proving
through centuries" <