DMC 06 thread Medium Driftwood
DMC stranded cotton 06 is officially called “Medium Driftwood”: a medium beige, muted.
- On-screen colour
#AFA094- RGB 175, 160, 148
- Family
- Beiges and skin tones
- Lightness
- 67 / 100
Approximate colour (estimate: this newer thread is missing from public tables): no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Medium Driftwood” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 06
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 647Beaver Gray MedΔE 2.7 · very close
- DMC 3032Mocha Brown MedΔE 3.4 · very close
- DMC 648Beaver Gray LtΔE 6.3 · close
- DMC 452Shell Gray MedΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 3023Brown Gray LightΔE 6.5 · close
- DMC 05Light DriftwoodΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 841Beige Brown LtΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 3864Mocha Beige LightΔE 8.3 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 06 is easily confused with DMC 647 and DMC 3032. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 06?
A skein of DMC stranded cotton is 8 m long and splits into 6 strands. Stitched with 2 strands on 14-count Aida, it covers about 1,800 cross stitches. For your own chart, the cross-stitch calculator gives the number of skeins and the finished size.