DMC 07 thread Driftwood
DMC stranded cotton 07 is officially called “Driftwood”: a medium brown, muted.
- On-screen colour
#8E7D72- RGB 142, 125, 114
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 54 / 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 “Driftwood” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 07
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 07 is easily confused with DMC 451 and DMC 646. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 07?
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.