Award-winning storyteller Bill Gordh (Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence winner, National Association of Parenting Periodicals Gold Award winner) presents this folk tale live with no script, accompanied only by his own dynamic banjo playing.

The girl made such beautiful lace that they called her Sister Lace. Her lace would take the forms of flowers and birds and beasts. Girls from all over came to learn from her the art of lace making. She was a devoted friend and teacher. The emperor heard of her lace making and ordered his guards to go and bring her to him. She did not want to go. They forced her into the carriage. When she arrived at the palace, she refused to leave the carriage. They forced her out.

When the emperor saw her, he said he would like to marry her; she could stay with him forever, and servants would do whatever she wished. She wished to return to the girls she was teaching. The emperor threw her in prison and told her if she could make a rooster from lace in seven days, she could go home. She did. A drop of blood for red for its comb, a teardrop became a pearl in its mouth, and it came alive. The emperor claimed a rooster had escaped from his grounds. The rooster scratched the emperor and scolded him. He got angry and ordered that she make a partridge in seven days, and she could go home. She did: With a drop of blood, she speckled its wings, and a tear for a pearl in its mouth.

The emperor declared he had asked for a dragon. She had seven days. She made a little dragon and with a drop of blood made it a red dragon. When the emperor saw it, he said it was a snake. The dragon breathed fire on the emperor. That was the end of the emperor, and the fire burned down his palace. Sister Lace jumped on the back of the dragon and rode into the sky, never to be seen again, but her lace work is still seen every time there is a rainbow.