DMC 08 thread Dark Driftwood
DMC stranded cotton 08 is officially called “Dark Driftwood”: a dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#584437- RGB 88, 68, 55
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 31 / 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 “Dark Driftwood” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 08
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 08 is easily confused with DMC 838, DMC 779 and DMC 3031. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 08?
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.