DMC 160 thread Blue Gray Medium
DMC stranded cotton 160 is officially called “Blue Gray Medium”: a medium blue.
- On-screen colour
#999FB7- RGB 153, 159, 183
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 66 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Blue Gray” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 160
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 794Cornflower Blue LightΔE 4.6 · very close
- DMC 156Blue Violet Med LtΔE 5.6 · close
- DMC 809Delft BlueΔE 5.7 · close
- DMC 340Blue Violet MediumΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 155Blue Violet Med DarkΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 03Medium TinΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 3839Lavender Blue MedΔE 8 · close
- DMC 341Blue Violet LightΔE 9.2 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 160 is easily confused with DMC 794, DMC 156 and DMC 809. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 160?
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.