is publication presents the vocabulary relating to the terminology of Tatar embroidery. Embroidery is one of the traditional crafts of the Tatar people, it has been continually improved over the course of the nation's history. The study of the vocabulary relating to it does not only contributes to determining the historical stages in the development of the language of the Tatar people, but it also has importance for illuminating many issues of their spiritual culture and linguistic picture of the world. The aim of the study is to analyse systematically words that represent different methods and techniques of embroidery, as well as the nomination of tools and accessories of this craft in the Tatar language. The scientific novelty of the study is that authors make the comprehensive analysis of the professional and handicraft Tatar vocabulary relating to embroidery. The lexemes of embroidery craft as a separate lexical-semantic group represent an entire terminological system. In the proposed article, the authors present a set of terms, expressing the basic methods and techniques, tools of embroidery in the Tatar language as two subgroups of the lexical-thematic group of the lexicon of embroidery business. These subgroups are of special interest, because they include both common words, as well as terms specific to this layer of vocabulary, and form the basis of this terminological system. The article has illustrative material for a fuller understanding of the contextual use of these terms in the Tatar language. The authors have drawn upon materials contained in various dictionaries of the Tatar language, reference books, as well as works on art history and dialectology and ethnographic works.