Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric with stitches. The fashion for different types of embroidery appears and disappears, but the main types of seams remain unchanged. Betty Barnden's book Embroidery is a seminal guide to embroidery stitches. Over 200 seams are described here - from contour and vestibule to markings and seams for embroidery along the canvas. The second part of the book is devoted to the techniques of using embroidery seams in practice - options for counting embroidery, free embroidery and embroidery along the canvas.