Embroidery and embroidery stitches -- Canvas stitches -- Crewel-stitch -- Herring-bone-stitch -- Buttonhole-stitch -- Feather and oriental stitches -- Rope and knot stitches -- Interlacing, surface stitches and diapers -- Satin-stitch and its offshoots -- Darning -- Laid-work -- Couching -- Couched gold -- Appliqué -- Inlay, mosaic and cut-work -- Embroidery in relief -- Raised gold -- Quilting -- Stitch groups -- One stitch or many? -- Outline -- shading -- Figure embroidery -- The direction of the stitch -- Church work -- White work -- A plea for simplicity -- Embroidery design -- Embroidery design -- A word to the worker.